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Emeric Somlo Typewriter Collection Auction Results
The Emeric SomloTypewriter CollectionAuctionYoung’s AuctionsMelbourne, AustraliaNovember 29, 2013To say there are surprises here would be an understatement. But, as I forecast, there were many, many...
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'A Revolution in Typewriter Type'?: Oliver v Yōst, Printype v Imperial - The...
In late 1910, Typewriter Topics took the unusual step of publishing a letter from the Yōst Typewriter Company, in which Yōst was highly critical of claims made by one of the Topics' other major...
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Cincinnati Dreamin': All the Olympia SM2 Portable Typewriter is Green and the...
Richard's note left in the platen of the Olympia SM2 for its trip across the Pacific. You can easily tell that Richard has a far lighter typing touch than I do!I should have pointed put that this is a...
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Everything New in Portable Typewriters is Old Again
The first version of the Royal Scrittore, still for sale (new) by Adler Royal on Amazon, for $US118.99.The same typewriter now being offered (as a Rover 5000 Super Deluxe) - a "looks-like-new...
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Happy Christmas Typewriter Buyers and Users
This is my Christmas card for 2013. If so inclined, please feel free to print it out and stand it on your mantelpiece, just in case your card doesn't arrive in the mail from me in time for...
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Too Hot for Laptops, But Typewriters Kept Working
Attention all journalists:(Kitchener would know: he led the army at Omdurman)The Blickensderfer 5 typewriter thrived in the 120 degrees plus heat of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898. Laptops like this...
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RIP Peter O'Toole: Lawrence of the Olympia Portable Typewriter
Actor Peter O'Toole died at Wellington Hospital in London on Saturday, aged 81. Born Peter Seamus O'Toole in either Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, or Leeds in England (take your pick), O'Toole...
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What a Happy Christmas for Me! It's Here! The Masspro!
I got the call at 4pm this afternoon, less than two hours ago, that a large parcel had arrived for me from Germany. The anxious three weeks-long wait was over!By 4.10, having driven like Stirling Moss...
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Days of 'I Am Typewriter' Set to Return - Another Dream Comes True
Some observant Typospherians may have already guessed it, but in the past five days I have been unearthing and digging through box upon box of typewriter ephemera. As I have come across things of...
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The Naked Olivetti Lettera 22 Portable Typewriter - She's 'Armless!
While working on another project, and waiting for things to dry in this scorching Canberra summer, I decided to finally tackle a paint-faded Olivetti Lettera 22 mask which had been sitting out the back...
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Typewriter Bells at Christmas
I chose the Fox N0 24 standard typewriter because it was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where The Polar Express is set. The Remington is a No 16. The movie poster Chris Van AllsburgTed Munk put out a...
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A BEVY of BLICKS: What Remains of My Blickensderfer Typewriter Collection -...
No 5 - Stamford, Connecticut No 5 - New Zealand Typewriter Company(Alf Reed, Dunedin) No 5 - Newcastle (England) (Rimingtons) No 5 - Stamford, Connecticut No 7 - Stamford, Connecticut No 7 - Newcastle...
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One Hundred Years Ago This Christmas: Raymond Koessler and his Simplex...
For Christmas 1913, Raymond Koessler, aged nine, of Cashton, a village in Monroe County, Wisconsin, got from Santa Claus a Simplex Special No 1 typewriter. He had mastered the use of this wonderful...
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Canberra Type-In
Two's company, three's a crowd. But do three Typospherians gathered in the kitchen of a Typewriter Museum constitute a Type-In? If so, Canberra staged its first Type-In this evening. It wasn't even...
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Typewriters in 2013: The Year From a Personal Perspective
JANUARYIn what was probably the typewriter sale of the year, a 1875 Sholes & Glidden, seen above on the right, sold in an eBay auction in the US for $US20,230 on January 21. That's almost as much...
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Typewriters on Display
It has probably taken more than four years, but at long last I have put some of my typewriters back on show. There are now 200 displayed downstairs, about half my collection (give or take a hundred or...
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