The really amazing thing about these instruments is their average age. Most of these devices are from the very early age of electrical communication. How many collectors have even one or two pieces in their collection that predate 1870 ?

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	Breguet ABC or dial telegraph receiver circa 1855.
	Register and key by the famous French instrument maker Ducretet.
	Very old embosser circa 1848.
	Siemens and Halske model of 1868.
	Very early weight driven Siemens Morse receiver. Built in 1853 as an embosser and transformed in 1859 by Caminada Holland into an inkwriter.
	Toy ABC/dial telegraph receiver by Radiguet of Paris.
	Wheatstone ABC/dial telegraph patented 1858.
	Wheatstone speed telegraph Morse receiver circa 1880.

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