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Okonite Company Callender Cable Paperweight. Historic company known for Submarine and communication cable!
Found some fun info from the great George Glazer Gallery. The Okonite Company was founded under another name in 1878, and by 1892 had main offices in New York and London and manufacturing facilities in Passaic, New Jersey, and Manchester, England. They produced “every form of the highest grade of insulated wire, from the smallest used in telephone service to the largest used in submarine cables” (King). In its early years, the firm sold cables to Samuel F.B. Morse for his telegraph network and to Thomas A. Edison for the nation’s first generating station in New York City. In 1889, the company built a large plant in Passaic, New Jersey, and reorganized under the name of The Okonite Company. Over the years, Okonite has pioneered the materials and fabrication for many specialized wire and cable products, and is still operating today.
Inscription on base: Okonite Callender Cable 750,000 C.M. single condr paper insul lead sheathed 75000 volts service H.S. PHELPS. Measures 1 3/4″ tall, bottom has 4 1/4″ diameter and glass window has 3″ diameter. Nice weight at 2 pound 2 oz. Metal has brass wash and nonmagnetic. Has nice thick looking piece of glass. Old green felt bottom.
Guessing made 1940s. Cool Find from a historic company!
