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Repairing a Blickensderfer Typewriter Case
This Blickensderfer typewriter case had suffered some severe water damage on the watch of a previous owner. Blick cases are such beautiful things and I hated seeing it in the terrible state it was in....
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The $340 million Typewriter
There appears to be no middle ground when it comes to opinions about the IBM Selectric-lookalike Remington SR-101 typewriter. Typewriter enthusiasts familiar with the machine are either vehemently in...
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The Naked Underwood
The last of the booty typewriters I've tackled is this Underwood, which, apart from having been badly neglected, had a snapped paper bail, a broken drawband and several missing keytops, including a...
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The Giger Underwood
Inspired (and distracted) by overnight comments and ideas from Richard Polt, Erik Jaros and Ted Munk, the Naked Underwood has indeed turned into the Giger Underwood. Thanks for pointing me in this...
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Halberg Portable Typewriter
David Lawrence, the only typewriter repairman in Auckland, New Zealand (he's at Environ Printers on Mount Eden, if you ever happen to visit God's Own Country), this morning alerted me to this Halberg...
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The Exodus Continues - 82 Typewriters Will Stay
I'm pleased to say the process of significantly downsizing my typewriter collection goes on unabated. So far it's been quite painless. Two friends arrived today and left with 12 typewriters, making 57...
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Farewell Vendex, Farewell Bing
Vendex later became Vendex KBB after a 1999 merger with Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer and is apparently now known as Maxeda, a Dutch retail group that operates in Europe, the Middle East and Dutch...
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120 Must-Go Typewriters
Following my post last night on the 82 typewriters I have earmarked to keep, I've been asked by a number of people who I know to be genuinely interested buyers - and who have been very satisfied with...
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Typewriter Update
Top Typospherian makes the Boston Globe:"Jobs of Yesteryear" - Typewriter collector and repairer Tom Furrier runs the Cambridge Typewriter Company in Arlington, Massachusetts.Vogue is a rare art deco...
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What a Week!
I haven't had a week like this in living memory. It is due to reach a crescendo today, when, all things going according to Hoyle, as many as 40 more typewriters leave this place.On Sunday I heard from...
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Vive Remington! Fantastique Français clavier Remington 3 machine à écrire...
On Friday, just before another 40 odd typewriters left these premises (taking the total of my downsizing in a fortnight to more than 120), this fabulous Remington 3 portable arrived here. It was a gift...
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From the World's Longest Cab Ride to the Lady of the Swamp Mystery: How NOT...
Driver William Charles Samuel Heard and one of his passengers, Ada Murch Beal, take a rest during their 7000-mile cab ride through the centre and eastern seaboard of Australia. In the background is...
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Red Letter Day - Typewriters on Father's Day in Oz
We celebrated Father's Day in Australia yesterday and I was taken to a very pleasant lunch by my son Danny and soon-to-be daughter-in-law Emily. Typewriters for the coming wedding were on the menu. No,...
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The Egyptian Kangaroo and the Australian 'sine qua non' Bijou Folding Typewriter
This image was taken in mid-December 1914 at Mena Camp, beside the Giza Pyramids, 10 miles outside Cairo. The 10th Battalion (South Australian) Infantry of the 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force,...
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Why Form Must Follow Emotion: The Beauty of Typewriter Design
The Powerhouse Museum - Sydney's Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences - has yet again taken out of storage and dusted off its gleaming Blickensderfer 6 typewriter. The museum is showcasing its design...
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Sheening Up the Japan
The Shine Also Rises(as does the Urania)BeforeAfterMany of us have tried various methods of restoring the high sheen to the japan black finish on our old typewriters. In Australia, collectors often...
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Weird Coincidences: Deaths link Arctic Waste with Australian Outback
A side-scan sonar image of a Franklin expedition ship on the sea floor in northern Canada.Ottawa, Today (September 10, 2014): Canadian explorers have found the wreck of one of two ships lost in the...
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Typewriter Update
Méarchlár GaelachAccording to Eddie McIlwaine, writing this week in the Belfast Telegraph in Northern Ireland (a newspaper to which I once contributed rugby notes), Tom Hanks is on a quest to find a...
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The Way We Were
Miranda Otto plays Meredith Appleton and Annie Martin her friend Nettie Stanley in the commendable 2010 Australian movie South Solitary, which deals with post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by...
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Short interview with typewriting sports writer Gianni Mura
Richard Polt has very kindly sent me this audio of a short interview with typewriting Italian sports writer Gianni Mura, who I featured in a blog post here.
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