western electric early whatzit speaker ? microphone ?

[scrounger d detector collector]

hey found this item at the auction and couldnt resist.hope its worth the 11 dollars i paid. im a fan of old weird junk.western electric stuff is cool.been around the net and cant tell if its a microphone or a speaker.maybe it aint complete.it is stamped western electric tho.thats my extremely alert guard cat SHRIMP helping me .HA !

 

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[KTMRIDER]

This does appear to be an old broadcast microphone. Some bring several hundred $$. Check eBay.

 

[acevillav]

I agree shoot it up on Ebay you may get some big $$ the lunch boxes and hot wheels in the pic are slam dunks if you ever want to sell them

Acevillav

 

[Roadquest]

Very cool, My mom used to have some things like that. I don't know where she got then.
But, she sold the stuff at yard sale.

 

[warsawdaddy]

With the magnet and paper remains,I vote for 'speaker'.Western Electric became famous for telephones.

 

[sniffer]

that looks like an early model of a radio microphone, later ones were known as a can.
It's probably worth more than what you paid for it

Sniffer

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

Forget ebay.....I'll give you a quarter right now for the cat.

SORRY no can do i need him to guard my treasures