EVER READY LAZY DAISY CALL BELL, circa 1910

Used as a portable calling system for master and servant or doctor and patient, simply it consists of a large battery box with a bell on the top a fabric covered lead connects to a bell push, which is unwound and left with the patient/master ready for calling. The system could have many other uses. Dating these units is difficult as the manufacturing period could have lasted for as much as 30 years. Thanks to a comment received from America, one was found with evidence that it had been used in 1904, dating it to the turn of the 20th Century. Carries the nickname Lazy Daisy. This one made by Ever ready.

Bruce Hammond Collection.

A1721