Edwards Colonial Tubular Doorbell
Edwards Colonial Tubular Door Chime Model 1450 This patriotic themed door chime was designed by Lurelle Guild for Edwards and Company in 1941. Edwards featured… Read More »Edwards Colonial Tubular Doorbell
Edwards Colonial Tubular Door Chime Model 1450 This patriotic themed door chime was designed by Lurelle Guild for Edwards and Company in 1941. Edwards featured… Read More »Edwards Colonial Tubular Doorbell
Early Single Note Door Chime One of the earliest door chimes in the Museum, these examples play a single note on a tone bar. The… Read More »Early Single Note Doorbell
Mello Chime Harmony De Luxe. This door chime features high Art Deco styling. It is also a fascinating example of an early chime that employs… Read More »Mello Chime Harmony
Sears Commodity Door Chime Model 34-1449 In the 1970s, efforts to drive down costs and simplify the home, doorbells were fading into the walls. Doorbells… Read More »“White-Box” Door Chime
Nutone Skyline K-14 Door Chime incorporates resonators in cover Resonator chambers incorporated into the design of this door chime distinguish the NuTone K-14 Skyline. While… Read More »Nutone Skyline
A Doorbell Renaissance at Sears with Rittenhouse The Sears 1964 catalogs were a bit of a door chime renaissance at Sears. The Fall 1964 Big-Book… Read More »Doorbell Renaissance
New Materials and a New Brand of Doorbells at Sears After enduring a lengthy depression and the austerity of a total war effort, 1950s America… Read More »Plastic
Sears’ Doorbells Ring-In Post War Prosperity Following the War, America was optimistic. Returning service men started families in record numbers. Suburbs with millions of new… Read More »Postwar
Sears’ brief Silvertone Era 1940-1941 With an America in economic recovery, Sears expanded their line of door chimes for the new decade. The 1940 Spring… Read More »The Silvertone Era
Doorbells Transformed: Sears First Transformer Early doorbell adopters had to be certain their batteries held a charge or else their doorbell wouldn’t ring. And in… Read More »Doorbells Transformed