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Oh Joy, ETCetera
It feels like it's been forever, and it's certainly been a long and lonely Southern Hemisphere spring, summer and autumn without a new ETCetera to cool the fevered Typospherian brow. The fact that the...
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Belting Out a Typewriter Case Strap
This little Remington portable is winging its way to Queensland as I write. I sold it on eBay to a Sunshine Coast woman and it seems as if it is going to a good home, where it will be suitably cared...
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'Put a Black In For Me'*: Carbon Paper, its Positive Impact on Typewriters,...
*For many decades during the 20th Century, the plea "Put a black [carbon paper] in for me" was heard in newsrooms across the Western World. Often journalists supplemented their meagre pay by acting as...
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Hannah Arendt
Barbara Sukowa as Hannah ArendtI haven't got so much out of a movie in a long time. But as I sat in the Greater Union theatre in Manuka last night, watching Klaus Pohl play Martin Heidegger in Hannah...
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eBray
It's always painful enough having to part with typewriters, especially ones that are particularly cherished. But when needs must, the pain is all too quickly quadrupled by the necessity to subject...
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Breker Typewriter Auction, Cologne, May 24
Price estimates belowToday's exchange rate: One euro = $US1.375, $A1.47
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Coming Up Empty: A Funny Typewriter Story
I've just had a visit from a chap looking to buy a typewriter for his young daughter for her birthday.He contacted me earlier in the week, having been put in touch with me by Christine Lund at the Down...
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Watching the Grass Grow, the Paint Dry
 Typecast using one of my Torpedo 18s. Original colours. It may not look much yet, but it's growing rapidly. Soon all the patches will be covered by grass. One bunch of cat grass is in the right...
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Birthday Special
As promised, my good friend Deborah's birthday special:In truth, it's not the "Typewriter of the Republic" (Deborah is proudly one of our leading Australian Republican Movement advocates) but an...
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New Typewriter Book
Seattle typewriter collector Nick Bodemer has put out a new, 52-page book on typewriters called Mid-Century Portable Typewriters - A Spotter's Guide. It's "a guide to the most commonly-found...
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Ugly Duckling Typewriter - Almost
Yes, it's missing the two plastic connecting parts from the front, both of which were smashed in transit three years ago and have now mysteriously disappeared.It wasn’t last Wednesday's 66th...
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Facit T2 Standard Typewriter
With a covering plate taken off to show the carriage rod.What an exciting typewriter day it turned out to be. It started out with a friend tipping me off about some interesting information in...
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The Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic, Little Egypt and the Remington Typewriter
The sexual outlaw sat alone in her room, considering her options. She had already been arrested in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Washington, DC. Here in New York, she had endured three months in the...
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Quick Typewriter Quiz
Possibly best tried without referring to anything. Answers in the comments field.1. An easy one to start with: How many Yasui brothers formed Brother: 2, 4, 6 or 8?2. Who was Erika?3. Who was...
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Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite. Sorry, of Mr Bodemer: Royalite Carriage...
I was asked by Seattle typewriter collector Nick Bodemer about the carriage lever and line-spacing mechanism on a Royalite portable. While replacing the knobs on his Royalite, Nick had "accidentally...
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Booty!
I needed these like a hole in the head.I have absolutely no room left to properly store these typewriters. What free space I had has long since gone down the gurgler.Hence these 25 machines sitting on...
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Imperial Model 80 Standard Typewriter (Booty II)
The colour selector and touch control settings appear in a small hole on either side of the keyboard and are changed by a switch underneath the machine (below)The serial number on this model, which was...
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Replacing the carriage lever on a Royalite portable typewriter
This Royalite has the serial number RL 3238581, which means it was one of the earliest Royalites made (in Holland), possibly as early as 1956, but certainly by early 1957.Replacing its lever was a task...
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