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Strike a Light! Australia's Funniest eBay Typewriter Listing
The listing says, simply, "Adler Typewriter in it's [sic] case working; only minor marks otherwise good". The seller is in Port Fairy, Victoria. The poor old Tippa is off with the pixies, trying to...
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Henry Roby's Story of the Invention of the Typewriter (IV and Last) -...
PEELER'S TYPEWRITERAbner PeelerAbner Peeler was born on January 15, 1836, in Russellville, Schuyler, Illinois; he died on November 2, 1895, in Leheigh, Webster, Keokuk County, Iowa. He told the Fort...
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Which Typewriter? 1979 British Consumers Report on Portable Typewriters (Final)
This 1979 review is the last of the four British Consumers' Association Reports on Portable Typewriters sent to us by John Lambert, of New Haven, Connecticut. The four are contained in Which? magazines...
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Brisbane Type-In, Here I Come!
T-shirt ready, poster ready, typewriter ready. I leave Canberra tomorrow morning to drive north to Queensland for Sunday's Type-In at the Breakfast Creek Hotel in Brisbane, the first Type-In to be held...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey
DAY ONETYPEWRITERS: +1And so it begins ...Already I am almost exactly half-way there. I arrived in the New South Wales town of Taree at 6 o'clock this evening, after 7 1/2 hours on the road. I've...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (2)
DAY TWO TYPEWRITERS: +1 = 2...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (3)
DAY THREETYPEWRITERS: +1 = 3Thankfully, Day Three of the Odyssey was a quiet one. After two days on the go, covering more than 1300 kilometres from Canberra to Surfer's Paradise on Queensland's Gold...
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First Australian Type-In
Take a bow Scott Kernaghan for first suggesting then organising Australia's first Type-In, held at the Breakfast Creek Pub in Brisbane, Queensland, from 2-5pm today. What a wonderful, memorable time...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (4)
DAY FOURTYPEWRITERS: +2 = 5Though still a little worse for wear from the reunion celebrations at the Lansdowne Road Irish pub the night before - I'm not used to such events any longer - I woke early,...
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Mystery Typewriter: Urania Piccola?
I am pleased to have piqued Richard Polt's interest in this "mystery typewriter". I feel confident Richard will be able to pick it in a minute.I, meanwhile, remain mystified. The closest thing I can...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (5)
DAY FIVETYPEWRITERS: 0=5KANGAROOS: 1=1Up at sparrow's this morning, relishing a glorious sunny dawn on Queensland's Wide Bay. My sister said, "The typewriters are being well looked after."Of course,...
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Typecasts From an Australian Type-In
A selection of typing from the first Australian Type-In, held at the Breakfast Creek Pub in Brisbane last Sunday:John Lavery's Bijou cheque writerSteve Snow's Corona 3 had a blue-and-red ribbon!Scott...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (6)
DAYS SIX, SEVEN and EIGHTMARY POPPINSandTHE PRINCESS1949 Princess, serial number 3434A wide net has been cast over the sultry Wide Bay region of Queensland, and it has been scoured for typewriters -...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (7)
DAY NINETYPEWRITERS: +0 = 5THE TYPEWRITERImperial Good Companion Model 7(Not new to my collection)Serial number: 7G 412Year: 1962Factory coloursMade in: Leicester, EnglandBasket shiftBlack base tray...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey (8)
DAY TENST PATRICK'S DAYTYPEWRITERS: +2 = 7PARROTS: 5 or moreORANGE & PINK-HAIRED BIKIE CHICKS: About a dozenI was touched by Miguel Ángel Chávez Silva's comment on my last odyssey update, which...
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On The Road With Typewriters: The 2013 Canberra to Brisbane Type-In Odyssey...
DAY ELEVEN (and LAST)TYPEWRITERS: +3 = 10As flagged yesterday, I arrived home this evening to find three "new" old typewriters: a 1937 Monarch Pioneer, a 1949 Torpedo Modell 18 and a "modern" Kofa...
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Typewriter Update, March 2013
I am posting the March Typewriter Update now, while I can, as I am flying to New Zealand next week and won't get a chance to do it while away. I don't expect to be finding any new "old" typewriters in...
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The "Art" of Making Typewriter Decals
Urged on by Rob Bowker, Peter Baker, Ted Munk and Georg Sommeregger to "reveal" the "art" of decal-making for typewriters, I rushed this demonstration job today and completely botched it. It wasn't...
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