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Word: shellamar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1983-1983
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...selling more than simple communication. Says Randall Tobias, president of American Bell Consumer Products: "We expect there will be telephones in rooms where their principal function is decorative." Some phones are designed as objets d'art: a porcelain unit with a hand-knotted silk cord ($495); the shimmering Shellamar Abalone, with its own pearlescent finish ($250) by TeleConcept Inc. of Hartford, Conn. Others are objets de nostalgia: the 1930s-vintage Candlestick ($139) with its separate mouthpiece and earpiece; the Country Junction ($265), which has an oak case and two brass bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Money | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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