Abstract: A telephone holder which can be secured to either the vertically extending side wall of a conveniently located item or a horizontally extending upwardly facing wall thereof, on which a telephone can be held for easy reach by a user. The holder includes a base plate on which the telephone is secured, an elongated vertically extending mounting plate integrally joined to the base plate along a side edge and extending substantially normal thereto, a pair of spaced apart horizontally extending mounting plates integrally joined to the base plate along its lower edge and extending substantially normal to the base plate in one direction therefrom, and another horizontally extending mounting plate integrally joined to the base plate along its lower edge in the space between the pair of spaced apart horizontally extending mounting plates, also extending substantially normal to the base plate but in the opposite direction therefrom.