Original Old Fashioned Ericofon Telephone

Old Fashioned Telephone with Turn Dial

Circa 1960's

Ericofon Telephone

The Ericofon, or Cobra Phone is a plastic one-piece telephone created by the Ericsson Company. It was the first commercially marketed telephone design to incorporate the dial and headset into a single unit. Because of its styling, and influence on future telephone design, the Ericofon is considered one of the most significant industrial designs of the 20th century and is in the collection of Museum of Modern Art.
The Ericofon is a Swedish designed telephone handset created by Ericsson. It was designed in the late 1940s by a design team including Gösta Thames, Ralph Lysell and Hugo Blomberg. A specific feature of the telephone is that the two major components—the handset and the dial—are combined in a single unit. This one-piece design anticipated the evolution of the typical cordless phone and cell phone by several decades. The Ericofon is considered a landmark in plastic industrial design. Serial production began in 1954. The earlier models were only sold to institutions, but in 1956 production for the open market begun in Europe and Australia. In Sweden  it is known as the cobra telephone, due to its similarity with the serpent. The design was largely discontinued in the late 1970's.

This unit comes equipped with the original plug still attached.

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