Seller covered the shipping box in vintage sheets of low-denomination stamps, and still had to buy an additional 8 cents of postage on a label.

An ebay find, 3 silk purple ribbons on metal spools, made in 1966 and still sealed. Yes, I opened one, yes I put it in a typewriter. It works, sort of.

Yellow Tag half-off day made this a $5 find! :D

This 1960′s-era movie screen is exactly the right size to hang the Type-in banner from. It also makes a great backdrop for typewriter pics…

Mail-ordered this part, an essential bit of my “Tripod-mounted Empire Aristocrat” project…

Recent posts in the Typosphere celebrating phone number indexers made me weak for this $2 find. A Typewriter Telephone Indexer!