Wiring on your side of the SNI (Standard Network Interface) aka "protector box" is yours to do with what you wish. You just can't substitute a vintage porcelain connection block in place of the SNI, but anything else goes.
In my 1927 house there is still some vintage station wiring that consists of two solid pairs, fabric wrapped and braided. You might be able to duplicate that with similar reproduction wire. If you have a bell box (correct terminology is "subset") then you are good to go. A (Western Electric) type 634 is your best bet. I can't speak to AE or SC equipment. You can eliminate the need for a modern (or even vintage) baseboard jack by hard-wiring directly into the subset. Just hook up your phone's line cord, presuming it's original, to the subset and you're in business.
Do you have a phone niche with recess below it for the subset? That's the ideal residential arrangement.
There are diagrams for wiring a Western Electric D-1/oval base desk stand to a subset on the Classic Rotary Phone Forum that I linked to above. It can be tricky depending on the type of subset and how it and your desk stand are wired inside their respective cases. I had a situation of bad sidetone (feedback into the receiver) and squawky reception on my D-1. It turned out to be the subset (a 685) that wasn't compatible, and apparently didn't have the anti-sidetone upgrade. I changed out the subset with a 634, which is identical on the outside, and the sidetone and reception issues cleared up. The wiring diagrams on the CRPF site were a cinch to follow.
If you have a D-1 desk stand (the marking is at the top of the neck on the back) with the original E-1 handset and "bullet" type 395B transmitter, I strongly suggest you replace the "bullet" type -- it's extremely likely that it's bad, because they were notoriously bad from the beginning -- with the retrofit kit for the later and far superior F-1 transmitter capsule. Your phone will be useless otherwise. The look of the handset will be the same, except there will be the familiar perforated cover over the transmitter as opposed to the protruding "bullet" and all of it will be held in place by the original "spitcup" cap. Of course if you have the later F-1 handset, you needn't do anything. I read somewhere that with production of the F-1 transmitter, service techs were instructed to remove any 395B transmitter they came across and replace it with an F-1. Even Ma Bell knew that the 395B's were so bad that they pro-actively pulled them out of service instead of following their standard practice of recycling everything until it broke.
I'm sure there are members of the CRPF site who have old station wiring they might be willing to part with. You might also try the oldphoneworks.com site for wiring. Here's the link:
Oldphoneworks offers a huge selection of antique phones, and phone parts to individuals and businesses around the world.
www.oldphoneworks.com
