Michael Clemens on the typosphere page recently set a challenge to us typewriter fanatics for typewriter day to “honour your roots“. Well, I don’t think I can do that any better than to talk about a typewriter that has more personal significance to me than any other in my collection. This the typewriter that belonged…
I’m on dangerous ground here. For the last 6 months I have been largely concentrating my collecting activity on German machines – specifically Olympias, and I have been trawling ebay.de looking for specific typewriters for my collection. However, focusing on Olympias has introduced me to some interesting aspects of the history of their machines,…
So… I’m back in Brisbane. I’ve been back a few days, and while this isn’t a bad thing I’m feeling a little sad about it. Quite sad. But not too sad. There seems to have been a steady flow of little surprises of late. The Typewriters. Let’s get down to business. Firstly, I managed to…
The title of this post isn’t some cryptic riddle. There’s no prize to be given away to the person that gets it right, and I won’t be asking anyone to turn their Facebook profile photo into a giraffe. Some of you may recall the Olympia SM1 that I purchased over at Woolloongabba antiques earlier this…
Davis Typewriter works: 2013 Carina. The Carina 2 is a very solid typewriter despite the plastic case, but is very light despite its size. Even when it is being kept in its interesting case.
This lasted two minutes, before I put a towel down, stripped the machine’s shell off and tackled the muck properly. The end result was worth it: Our DSL modem and router packed it in sometime on Friday, and I was largely on a digital detox of my own for the weekend – the…
The Filthy Platen 