I don't like that at all! It looks like a telephone version of the over-elaborate brass covers you can buy to fit over existing white wall switches.
Still, under all that decoration you have a nice old 706 telephone. Notice the difference in the cradle area which I mentioned before.
There were some versions of the 746 here that were wall-mounted and they had small metal hooks that held the reciever in place when the phone was not in use.
Have a look at the link above, you can see a red 706 version (without dial) like that. The 711 and 741 (also pictured on that page) were the more common wall types, being based on the 706 and 746 respectively.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 04-22-2005).]
