Western Electric Handset Cord Beige 6ft Trimline Phone Coil Princess H4DU 60 STD

Description

We do not guarantee a color match. Roughly the color of a bandaid.
A Western Electric beige short, aka STD handset cord. In particular the WE beige color code -60. Authentic Western Electric (Bell System). Works on Trimline models 205 210 210M 220 230 230M, Princess, 500 (rotary desk), 554 (rotary wall), 2500 (touch tone desk), 2554 (touch tone wall), and many others. Each is new in a plastic bag. The bag is beat up. Packaging may vary, but it is a Western Electric / Bell System cord.
Please note: Ivory and beige were and still are often confused.
This cord has a lot of pink tint to it
. Ivory does not.
Length:
The maximum
practical
working length of this cord is 4 feet. Relaxed the coiled portion of this cord is about 9 inches long,
NOT 6 FEET
. Add a little more for the uncoiled portion on each end. It is called a 6 foot cord because 6 feet of material goes into the curling machine.
Western Electric went by a standard that "LONG" meant 12 feet and "STD (standard) meant 6 feet. Later, "LONG" came to mean a 25 foot cord.
This cord is the 6 foot version.