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A Forest of African Mahogany Rheinmetall Portable Typewriters
Top of the range, serial number 207773 (1937),ivory keys, tabulator key Middle of the range, serial number 196748 (1936),ivory keys, no tabulator key Bottom of the range, serial number 195041...
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The Senta Portable Typewriter (Model 4)
My Typewriter Day gift to myself.Happy Typewriter Day, Typospherians!(I hope you all got to type on a machine you found to be as nice as I found this one)The Senta portable typewriter was designed by...
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Imperial Good Companion Model 3 Portable Typewriter: The Only Psychiatrist to...
1959 And All That:Or How I Learnt to Typewrite Stories at the Shoulders of Messrs Jenkins and Thomas,Lions Among Sports WritersJohn Lavery at his Visigraph at the Brisbane Type-In on March 10. I am...
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The Ryan Adney (Typewriter) Soapbox
I haven't yet been able to contribute anything to Ryan Adney's Classroom Typewriter Project, but at least the thought is there. So much so that when today I started cleaning up this old wooden Royal...
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Night of the Maroons: New (Old) Prime Minister, New (Old) Typewriter, New...
Oh, I almost forgot ...4. I have a new (old car) too. The Typewriter-Mobile was written off by insurance claim assessors, so I've had to buy a new Typewriter-Mobile, a somewhat smaller one. And I must...
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Typewriter Elbow
As Wimbledon enters day four and Richard Polt packs for London - though to look at Turners, not tennis - we can reveal a previously unknown malady: Typewriter Elbow*. This is what it looks...
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Continental Wanderer Portable Typewriter
This Continental Wanderer W35 portable typewriter is a development of a 1920s design by Alfred Richard Georg Vogt for Wanderer-Werke (formerly Winklhofer & Jaenicke) AG, Chemnitz-Schönau, Germany....
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How Mr Lavery Put The 'M' Back in Monarch: Replacing a Typebar in an Old...
The Monarch Pioneer which has been fully repaired, thanks to advice from John Lavery. The 'M' typebar has been replaced, so that, thanks to Mr Lavery, the Monarch has been saved from a dethroning and...
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Typewriter (Basket) Case
Before Typer-Wagen I was taken away to be auctioned off for parts, I decided to make the most of its considerable load area one last time. I made two trips out to Fyshwick to collect typewriter cases...
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Typewriter Update, June 2013
June was for large part a black month for me, with my only brother dying, a Hammond Multiplex giving me "Typewriter Elbow" (a torn arm muscle), my Typer-Wagen I being written off and weather that would...
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Welco! Quality? It's a Citizen Typewriter. Or maybe a Nippo?
I am tied up at an International Sports History Conference this week, so I must apologise for neglecting this blog for the time being.However, I had to find the time to correct myself after my June...
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Dem Ol' Typewriter Blues: How I Feel This Morning
With thanks to BuzzFeed's22 Things Journalists Know To Be True.Give me a Groma Kolibri any day! And I mean it!Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on the typewriterswhile you're goneCharlie, the Typewriter...
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Morale Booster, ETCetera
Unquestionably the high point of a difficult week for me was the arrival yesterday of the latest edition of ETCetera (June 2013, No 102). I gather this issue was produced by editor Alan Seaver under...
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Rainbow of Portable Typewriters over the Dora Baltea
Mercedes All the portable typewriters featured in this post were made by Olivetti in Barcelona, Spain.This bright yellow Mercedes came to me from Filipa Freitas of the Typewriter WorkShop in Berlin....
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Flight of Wedges (Electronic Typewriters)
Richard Polt's post (Shakespeare's typewriter) on his visit to Stratford-upon-Avon and his reference to an electronic wedge typewriter being immortalised in an oil painting (perhaps for the "first and...
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O Flower of Scotland, When Will We See Your Typewriter Again?
O Flower of Scotland,When will we seeYour like againThat fought and died forYour wee bit hill and glen.And stood against him,Proud Edward's army,And sent him homewardTo think again.The hills are bare...
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How a Typewriter Helped Change the Course of Australian History
On August 15, 1963, the Melbourne Age newspaper reported under the headline "House Hears Plea in Strange Tongue": "The strangest petition yet received by the [Australian] House of Representatives [in...
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Latter-Day Hermes Typewriters: Machines, Brochures and Secret Typewriter...
Mention of electronic and electric typewriters seems to have a way of galvanising Typospherians. My post the other day on typewriter wedges drew so many in-depth, mostly anti-electric comments that I...
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Yirrkala Bark Petitions: The White Lady Poet Who Typed Them
I'd like to hear from anyone who might be able toidentify the typewriter on which this was written.I hate to rain on a parade, but as Australia celebrates the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking...
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Good Remington Portable Typewriters, Bad Remington Portable Typewriters
GOODBAD**I should perhaps point out here, to avoid confusion, that it appears to me the version of the Ten Forty with which US Typospherians are more familiar is what I call the "good" Ten Forty. In...
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