| Name | Daruma Square Redphone |
| Date | Late 1990s |
| Manufacturer | Daruma Payphones |
| Credit | With thanks to- https://acervo.institutofuturos.org.br/ Images copyright Musehum, Museum of Communications and Humanities (Brazilian Telecommunications Museum) |
Above- standard black version
Development of the Daruma TPI Tamura Payphones in Brazil
This coin operated compact Brazilian Daruma payphone combines a bright red casing and matching handset with a black instruction panel and twelve-button keypad. It carries the “Sistema Telebrás” emblem and accepts telephone tokens, called fichas, through the metal slot above the keypad. The Portuguese instructions tell callers to lift the handset, insert one or more tokens, and dial. Further tokens could be added when a warning signal sounded; unused tokens were returned. A Brazilian museum records a similar Daruma instrument as a semipublic telephone. Its precise model designation and manufacturing date cannot be established from the photographs, which show no identification plate.
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