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Hey Little Sister! Tessy Portable Typewriter Stands Up to Big Sis Contessa
The Tipp-Ex holder came glued to the left side of the typewriter.Compare the German-made Tessy wth the same vintage, same colour Adler Contessa DeLuxe:Here is the Nakajima-made Adler Tessy “De Luxe”,...
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Paul Artem Braginetz and the Poetry of Portable Typewriter Design
The 10th anniversary of the death, at the age of 82, of mid-1950s Underwood portable typewriter designer Paul Artem Braginetz has just passed. So it is timely to revisit his wonderful design work, and...
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Vale Elmore Leonard (1925-2013)
US novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard at his Olympia SG3 typewriter, with wife Christine Kent, in Detroit, 1992ETCetera editor Alan Seaver yesterday drew my attention to the death of Elmore...
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The Colour of Writing: Writers and Their Typewriters
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).Remington Noiseless.Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)Remington No 3.Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)Corona 3.US author Philip Wylie(1902-1971). Noiseless.(I think with this post I may...
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Odd Things Typists Do
ARE WRESTLERS REAL TYPISTS?(To paraphrase Westbrook Pegler)In 1935 former world wrestling champion George Hackenschmidt, the "Russian Lion", took his beefy mitts off the throats of rivals and applied...
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A Remington SJ Typewriter for Christmas
Plan early and maybe you'll secure one of these typewriters for Christmas. There has been a glut of Glasgow-made Remington SJ standard-size typewriters on Australian eBay lately, so much so there has...
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Burgundy Urania Portable Typewriter: 'The Stable'
I find it interesting that Clemens Müller advertised this 1935 model as "The Stable" - presumably reflecting its stability on the writing surface, something I have always felt is an important...
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Fragments of a Typewritten Young Life
I went to my storage unit in Fyshwick today looking for something else - some small typewriters - and instead found some small typewritten fragments of a young life.In 1965, aged 17, I was in my last...
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The Late Manson Whitlock - Typewriter Maestro: A Pictorial Tribute
John Lambert in New Haven, Connecticut, has just let me know about the sad passing of Manson Whitlock, at the age of 96. John directed me to a story in the New Haven Registerhere.As soon as I can, I...
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Vale Manson Hale Whitlock (1917-2013) - Master Typewriter Man
MANSON HALE WHITLOCKBorn Bethany, Connecticut,February 21, 1917;Died Bethany, Connecticut,August 28, 2013, aged 96----Research, photos,photocopying and scansby his friend, typewriter collectorJOHN R....
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Good Grief! Snoopy and His Typewriter
I've never made a secret of the appeal that Snoopy and his little blue (or sometimes red) portable typewriter have held for me for more than half a century now. See my post from 2½ years ago,...
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Smallest Typewriter Collection
175 tiny typewriters. The owners of this little collection, Mr and Mrs Tynietype, are seen in the first image, sitting on their sofa with their Lab Nip. Mr Tynietype is holding the Blick 5 he calls...
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'The Best Offer'& The Smith Premier No 10 Typewriter
The Best Offer's Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore gives British-born actor Jim Sturgess some pointers on what to convincingly poke at with a stick under a Smith Premier No 10 typewriter, before...
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Typewriter Update, August 2013
Spot the cigar: Hemingway, 1944STUPID TYPEWRITER NOTIONSOne of the silliest pieces about typewritersI have read in the past six months appeared in a New York Post books blog "Page Views" last week....
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Striking It Rich On A Typewriter
The July 31, 1964, edition of LIFE magazine ran this article by Richard Schickel:(*I do apologise if this is difficult to read, but I'm afraid it's the best I can do. I've had to chop it into sections...
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Ionian Club Typewriter Presentation: 'A Favourite of Fortune'
I gave a typewriter presentation for the Ionian Club at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra today. Since the Ionian Club is a "friendship club for women on the move" and is to a large degree made up of...
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One Million Words of Pulp Fiction a Year for 15 Years! Walter Brown Gibson,...
I am deeply grateful to Richard Poltfor tracking down this image for me.*I think this should be "Lamont Cranston"Walter Brown Gibson was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, on September 12, 1897. He was...
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