Bell Push
Cleveland Museum of Art

Bell Push

House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918) · c. 1895–1915

silver gilt, enamel, bowenite, cabochon sapphire
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The advent of electricity in the 1880s made systems of buttons and bell pushes to call servants more efficient than the old lever and pully system within the wall that often broke with a vigorous tug.

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