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More sleeve designs
Another set of 78rpm shellac record sleeves. As the earlier set of images, record labels sleeve designs from mid thirties to early forties. German labels, except for the British HMV sleeve, very...
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Eraser on a leash
(Popular Science, October '26)At first glance a neat idea. On second thought perhaps, let it go and it could wind itself around the mechanism in all sorts of interesting ways :-)Also shows that the...
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Very well packed, arrived all in bits
A short while ago a large box arrived, having made a purchase off of Ebay from the typewriters section. (Shipper DPD certainly does like barcodes.)The inside of the box showed the extensive and very...
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Preparing for painting
With the spare parts in, a set of body-panels chosen and ready to be sanded down and have a coat of primer applied. Having seen several Remington Portable #2 machines (or parts thereof), there is quite...
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Father of the typewriter and about efficiency
Browsing, came across an issue of the Remington Notes on the Internet Archive. In this number 7, volume 4 (1918) much is made of the Self Starter. Had only linked that with the Portables (#3, #5)...
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Ranger Elite
Normally not my cup of tea, but this looked clean in the listing and was really literally just round the corner. And the case still had the key.This contained a Ranger typewriter, model Elite.No...
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Next (project...)
The Ranger Elite typewriter is fully cleaned, polished and oiled (where appropriate) and entered into The Database. It is pretty much in pristine condition, apart from a small white-out stain on the...
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Adler Favorit 2 late model
More of a project than thought from the image and description, but was curious for one of these thrust-typebar machines. Also the austere modernistic design has its appeal. Probably very common in...
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Ephemeral small object - dated
This little tape holder was always around the house, for as long as I can remember.Browsing LIFE magazine back-numbers a while ago, spotted the exact same little object in an advert.(LIFE magazine,...
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They're in season this month
Typewriterly books are in season, this season.This week my copy of the Uppercase typewriter book arrived. Like the title says it is about the graphic history, more than about the machines themselves....
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Remington Portable color choice
Choices! With the parts ready for painting, what color scheme to pick (it's a US made machine, hence color sans u :).The original glossy black looks good, but this one will be color. In the twenties...
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Markings on ruler and line-guide
The ruler on older portable typewriters is generally a stamped bit of metal with embossed markings. The markings are usually coloured in with a contrast colour, white lettering on a black ruler. Now...
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Parts machine, a #2 with early features
This is a parts machine. It was advertised as non-working and the seller delivered exactly as described :)This British assembled Remington Portable typewriter NV700212 has been dealt several blows,...
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Remington Portable in tangerine and cream
Comes out a very bright and sunny looking machine!New feet were manufactured to order for the machine. That sounds very excessive, but is not too bad really. More expensive than 20 cents for a simple...
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Remington Portable with feet for clamping the angled backplate
When a Remington Portable typewriter from the twenties has the extra angled backplate and when not is a bit vague. A mid '27 machine has it, a late '27 does not. The '28 'lava' machine does not and a...
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Polyphase N4053-3
A mahogany and celluloid Keuffel & Esser slide rule. A 'Polyphase', type N4053-3. Similar to the Rietz system, but with small differences on arrangement and how the S and T scales are done. The S...
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Dennert & Pape Mannheim
In a dark brown leather sleeve, a Mannheim sliderule made in 1908 by Dennert & Pape of Altona.Made of mahogany with celluloid scales. A very complete Mannheim with A[B C]D scales and S, T and a...
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Aristo Nr. 99
A more modern sliderule made in 'Astrolon' plastic (polyvinylchloride). According to the numbers 471 on the back it was made in 1947 in batch 1 by Aristo (Dennert & Pape). A regular 10 inch 'system...
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Confusing Corona
The machine looked derelict which was good, because this was purchased for the case. Had been wanting one to replace the case of the burgundy Speedline Sterling that was eaten by woodworms. (That case...
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