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I noticed that too, Bama. When I saw yours & RJR's I just had to hustle around & take some pics to post. The lower base of mine is cast pot metal & very much resembles the base of an old telephone. Where the switch is located is where the phone dial would be. I've never had it apart but where the long threaded machine bolt comes thru resembles the cradle where the hand set of a phone would lay. I'm undecided if it was a desk phone or candlestick but I'd bet the design of the casting was adapted from the phone & that the same casting company made both. Mine is probably older than yours than. If I Google the patent numbers I could probably learn a whole lot more about it.