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Spooky Typewriter Thoughts: I'm A Daydream Believer!
Last evening I was watching an episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow on ABC TV, and started daydreaming about finding typewriter treasures. The first one that always comes to mind is a Sphinx for...
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Typewriters at Gallipoli: Did They Cover Glorious Sacrifice or Sheer...
This incredibly detailed sculpture of a Corona 3 portable typewriter is the work of Jane Estelle Bailey and Mark Andrew Snell of the Lavaworx Art Studio in Coolum, Queensland. The sculpture represents...
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Latest QWERTY 'News' (sic) = Quite Wrong Error Riddled Twaddle Yada-Yada
Oh dear, how wrong can the overnight typewriter “experts” be? How many more times are we going to have to set the QWERTY record straight before some of them can start to grasp the truth?Never before in...
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RIP Les Murray, Australia's Typewriting Poet Laureate (1938-2019)
Les Murray, the Bush Bard of Bunyah and Australia's unofficial Poet Laureate, died today at a nursing home at Taree in New South Wales, aged 80. One of his peers said tonight that Murray was not just...
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'Pulsating Life' of the 'Sinister' Imperial Good Companion Portable...
The soundtrack on the BBC TV’s three-part series based on Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders is music to the ears of typewriters lovers. By soundtrack, I don't mean Isobel Waller-Bridge’s efforts in...
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RIP Doris Day (1922-2019)
Doris Day was my childhood sweetheart. She was born in Cincinnati. Naturally, therefore, there are two photographs of her at a typewriter, albeit an IBM Selectric I.Cincinnati Enquirer, October 15, 1937
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Eurovision's Oz Songbird and Her Red Remington Portable Typewriter
I’d never heard of Kate Miller-Heidke until she became Australia’s representative in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. How does Australia, which is in Oceania, come to compete in a European music...
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RIP Gloria Vanderbilt (1924-2019)
Gloria Vanderbilt had her Hermes Baby portable typewriter.Green Bay Press-Gazette, March 16, 1946Gloria Laura Vanderbilt died yesterday, aged 95, at her home in Manhattan, after having been diagnosed...
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The 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing and two Royal Express Typewriters
The restored EmpressThis 50th anniversary of the Moon landing has been both a joyous and eerie time. The eeriness is mostly typewriter related.Some weeks ago an older lady I only know as Mrs Miller...
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Typewriter Wizard Albert Tangora: Boy Wonder to World Beater
Marking the Centenary of Tangora’s World Amateur Title WinTangora at 14, 1917Tangora at 22, 1925Take your pick - 147 words a minute under one set of rules, 142 under another. Either way, Albert Tangora...
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Alphonse Mucha and the Bar-Lock Typewriter Posters
Flicking through the pages of The New Yorker edition of July 8 & 15, I came across an image which, at first, I thought was of a poster for the Bar-Lock typewriter. Instead, it was a Sarah Bernhardt...
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Work in Progress: Guess the Typewriter Model
Working on a personalised typewriter for a third grand-daughter - the first two have been an enormous success (well, the grand-daughters just love them to bits!). This one has been primed before being...
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The Great Typewriter Explosion of 1919
It’s 100 years since the great typewriter explosion cleared almost everybody out of Everybody’s Theatre on Cathedral Square in Christchurch, New Zealand.Everybody’s Theatre was screening Everywoman at...
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Canberra Typewriter Fest Under a Bubble
VERY excited about a typewriter event coming up in Canberra on September 22. It's under an actual (BIG) Bubble at Haig Park. I will be exhibiting some historically significant typewriters, including a...
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Collaborating with the Nazis: The Black Mark on Remington’s Typewriter History
There are many damnable acts in the chequered history of the Remington Typewriter Company, but none so execrable as Remington’s collaboration with the Nazis in World War II. In the First World War, it...
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Bubbling With Fun, Typewriters Galore: Type-In in the Park in Canberra
The Typewriter Festival in Haig Park in Canberra on Sunday turned out to be as much fun as organiser Ms Constance Spry forecast it would be. The weather forecast was pretty accurate, too, for a bright...
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Letter from Ms Constance Spry's (Typewriter) Letter Writing Service
Rose and Pip, the two ladies who organised the typewriter festival in The Bubble in Canberra in late September (see previous post) have sent us this letter, with its very kind and thoughtful sentiments:
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Blood on the Tracks: Is Rupert a Racist at Heart? Murdoch’s 62-year Record on...
John Newfong at his Olivetti Dora portable typewriter.In 1971 Rupert Murdoch's editors employed and then got rid of Newfong, the first Aboriginal journalist to work in this country's established print...
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A Trinity of Wedding Typewriters
I've fashioned a few wedding typewriters in the past eight years, but not once did I ever imagine I'd be putting together one for my own wedding. Bill MacLane in Palm Coast, Florida, was kind enough to...
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Henry Leverage – The Pulp Fiction Author Who Made His Corona 3 Portable...
From Bachelor of Philosophy to a front for electric trolley inventions,whaler, deserter, Alaskan gold seeker, railway telegrapher, newsman,miner, card sharp, car thief, ‘general crook’ and Sing-Sing...
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