I have just sold my Imperial Good COmpanion 3 on ebay for GBP16. However I have just realised the buyer is from Michigan and on investigation the postage at...
Hi Paul, I'm afraid you've just encountered the big problem that many of us have run into. The cost of mailing from the UK is exhorbitantly high. The current...
Hi Paul: I do not know exactly where you are in the UK, but check with FREIGHT FORWARDERS or even with an Airline that comes to the US. The Freight forwarders...
Get yourself situated in front of the machine and stare straight through into the typebasket. There is a curved support bar running horizontally and the SN is...
... Certainly a reasonable question. Most eBay offers I have seen say up front that the buyer is responsible for freight charges - thus the seller doesn't have...
Thanks, sis. Did I say I had an SP1? No, you haven't dusted one here. But I've got plenty awaiting your magic touch with the dustrag when you visit this...
I can not find the serial number of my MONARCH Standard typewriter # 3. Can anybody help me? Best regards, Tilman. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi Tilman, I have a No.3 and you should find the serial number if you move the carriage to the left and look towards the right of the escapement mechanism....
Nickurania@...
Sep 1, 2004 9:00 pm
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Hello. I saw this machine on eBay today. I've never heard of this brand. It looks kind of similar to an Underwood portable. ...
That indeed is a "mystery" machine, even to me :-) I would say it's from the '30s, and designed to type in French. However, it appears to have been made in an...
Friends, I have a question about telegraph typewriters... (we have a new member with a special interestest in telegraph typewriters, so maybe you can jump in ...
... I can't make any sweeping claims about how exactly teletypewriters were used, but here's what I can offer. Donald Murray's pioneering printing telegraph...
Paul, I cannot directly answer your questions because I never took enough interest to find out from a telegraph operator but I have repaired quite a few of...
Hey Dudes and Dudettes, Well yeah, I'd probly be happy to collect any vintage machine just on principle, but I did snag two that I've really-eely wanted since...
Hello Typewriter Hobbyists, Afficianados, and Enthusiasts! Wow, was I ever born too late! Looking here at a poster in Russo's book of a fetching Flapperish...
Jim, though I shudder at what it would do to your libido, you really need to go to Paul's Virtual Typewriter Museum and spring for a copy of the "Sexy Legs and...
... Hello Lynda and Nick - thank you for your efforts searching for the serial number. It was on the same place as on my model 2 but only two holes some 23 mm...
Jim, There's a neat little book you need to latch onto -- "Sexy Legs & Typewriters". Paul can help you get a copy ;-) (One of the Three Sisters is pictured...
... Hello Paul - some typewriter models were modified for telegraphy purposes, mainly to bring the morse text into alphabetic. In the telegram letters normally...
Congratulations! That is a really balanced pair of acquisitions--one that types on the top and one that types on the bottom. One with a minimalist 3-row...
Thanks for all the advice, its left me slightly more knowledgeble, though still with a Good Companion 3 on my hands! Will relist it shortly, though if anyone...
It looks like two things are getting discussed at one time here. One is the typewriters used by the telegraphers to copy messages, in Morse Code, onto paper....
Congratulations. Precious history on machines is most often lost. Get all you can. Names and places. Dax ... From: Jay Williams [mailto:jaywill@...] ...
Hi all, I had a clear out last week and disposed of a Remington No.7 junker, a Monarch No.3 junker and a Continental Silenta. The last worked but was very...
Nickurania@...
Sep 2, 2004 10:44 pm
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My first job with an American Company (1956) required a lot of typing (Remington ALL CAP machines - Electric) ( we used to call them BILLING MACHINES.) We had...
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