This machine may not have been made for export at all. At that time, there was still a large population of Dutch-speaking Americans, particularly in the upper...
... Maybe, but not sure since it's not listed. Can you send me photos of machine and clear closeups of ribbon spool? -- Jay Respler ADVANCED BUSINESS MACHINES...
Jay, thank you very much for your generous offer. I need the top piece and the nut and it turns out Lars Borrmann in Germany has them. When I posted my plea I...
Richard, I just mailed you a thingum. If it is what you need, great; if not, oh well! Best, Gary ... Gary, you're a prince! The ball diameter is about 1/4...
Hi, I am new to the forum. My name is Stephen and I am a Montessori elementary teacher. I just bought an early Hermes Baby and I will receive it next week....
... Another highly rated desktop would be an Olympia. Don't exactly remember the models but I think SM7 or SM9? Big, extremely solid machine, built very...
Stephen, I have an Underwood 6 from 1934 and I absolutely love it. I do a lot of typing every day and it is dependable and indestructible. I love the loud...
I recently joined the group as I was looking for information about my new crap-tacular Olivetti MS25 Plus typewriter. It seems to be one of the last if not the...
Hello Stephen, You will find that almost all of the earlier Underwood Models (#3,5,6 Champion etc.) are nearly identical machines. There were some very...
... Welcome, Stephen. You're the perfect person to ask: if I give a typewriter to my daughter's Montessori school, will it be a lovely gift or an annoyance? I...
It really depends on the teachers. Let me tell you how my wife and I used one in our class in the past. We would have the kids do a typing tutor program on...
I would like to add that I have found the kids in general love manual typewriters but... It very often depends (like many things) on how it is presented by the...
Hi Folks: here's the past week's top 40 (by price) completed eBay typewriter auctions, as of Friday. Have a great 4th of July weekend... Dave For direct links...
Hello - I bought a really horrid folding hammond to play with. It needed to be a complete tear down. Here are my questions for the week- I am trying to redo...
To address a couple of your questions. One, if you go to the trouble of removing the platen and feed rolls and even though you won't necessarily use it much...
"I found a unmarked typewriter in my uncles attic. he was born and raised in Greece, but i never gave it much thought. The typewriter had seen it's better...
Hello all, I have located a Armstrong and wanted to pick every ones brain. I have not yet seen the machine but hear it is in great condition. I asked the ...
Richard, If there is any fitting punishment for this it would be for this fellow, or any key chopper, to be locked in a room with this manual typewriter, ebay...
thanks so much Randy. I suppose you are right why cheap out on the platens. By sweated on I think you mean silver solder? I will slow down and give this...
Arghhh.... The keys seem to have rods on the back, maybe they could be put back on. What machine was this I wonder - I see that one of the symbol keys is a $....
... Made for Latin America, some machines were imported to US from Mexico and sold here. They take a special ribbon that is not for any other machine. I do...
... Could it just be that the # paint is worn off? -- Jay Respler ADVANCED BUSINESS MACHINES CO. 732-431-1464 -- JRespler@... SKY VIEWS & TYPEWRITERS...
I just sent an Email: "What a shame that you cut the keys off, Because of all the probelems with world war II and the civil war over in Greece, Complete ...
... to be locked in a room with this manual typewriter, ebay item 360065319843, and forced to copy War and Peace exactly and without typos! ... Ha! Or if...
... Probably something ordinary ... like a Visigraph. What's weird is that there are keys for a V and what looks like a mirror-reversed L. Neither of those are...
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