Cast your mind back a year, oh typosphere, and remember what happened on my blog on Valentine’s day 12 months ago. Actually, don’t strain your memory cells too hard… Here’s a recap: Last year, my tortured letter to the Valentine typewriter that I had repaired became item number 4 on google’s image search. As such,…
Sottsass referred to his Valentine typewriter as a ‘too obvious tart’. And looking at the design, it is easy to see why. Inserting the typewriter into its case is described as a ‘woman sliding into her stockings’, while the design of the machine itself clearly displays a set of exposed – to paraphrase Richard Polt,…
In the past few days both Nick and Ton have picked up Olivetti Valentine machines of their own. Here’s Nick’s blog on his purchase, which had followed Ton’s which can be found here. *EDIT* Rob Messenger just pointed out that he also picked up a Valentine last week. They’re multiplying! You can read about Robert’s…
Pardon my miss-use of ‘your’ below :- It may seem twee to be writing about my Valentine typewriter on Valentine’s day, but then again my disdain for my Valentine has been rather well documented. So it may surprise a few people that I revisited the Valentine, which hiding at the back of my collection,…
To small to read? Click to enlarge. Oh, and pardon the spelling monstrosities. What was I thinking!?
Seem like strong words? It seemed such a simple thing – putting the bearings back into a typewriter carriage. I saw Retro-tech Geneva’s Valentine shooting bearings, and I felt pretty confident that this was a problem that I could manage. And when I say manage, I mean… mange with a bit of effort. I wasn’t…
The Filthy Platen 