For quite some months, I have had a standing desk dedicated to Mothra, my 1972 IBM Selectric Composer. Sadly, when I last tried to type on ‘er a couple days ago, the machine stopped cold in half-cycle. I could still hear the motor spinning free, though, and that’s a real bad sign. So anyway – […]
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1964 NOMDA Blue Book: IBM Font Styles
It is perhaps fitting that I post the last of my typestyle scans on the day that Tom Furrier writes his celebration of the IBM Selectric. I myself refuse to include electric typewriters in my own corral, but if I were to own one, it would be a Selectric. Actually, it would have to be […]
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Remington Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Remington typewriter font styles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Royal Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Royal typewriter typefaces:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Olivetti Font Styles
And now we take a look at Olivetti typestyles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Hermes Font Styles
And now, the Hermes Typewriter font faces offered to customers in 1964:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Smith-Corona (SCM) Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Smith-Corona (SCM) typewriter typefaces:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Olympia Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Olympia typewriter font styles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: R.C. Allen VisOmatic Font Styles
And now we take a look at the R.C. Allen typestyles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Facit Font Styles
And now, the typestyle offerings of Facit in 1964:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Adler Typewriter Font Styles
One of the things I scanned from Bill Wahl’s 1964 National Office Machine Dealer’s Association Blue Book was the large section detailing the typestyles available to customers ordering a typewriter from a dealer. It’s surprising how many different typestyles were offered by each manufacturer, and a great many of these styles are ones I’ve never […]
How to properly describe the condition of a typewriter.
An example of the sort of clarity that I think would be useful when refurbishers are “Reconditioning” typewriters is the issue of platens. I’ll say straight up that a typewriter is not “rebuilt” unless all the rubber bits have been replaced and the platen recovered. By “recovered” I mean the rubber covering of the platen […]
R.C. Allen Calculator, Adding Machine and Cash Register Years of Manufacture by Serial Number
R.C. Allen Calculator, Adding Machine and Cash Register Years of Manufacture by Serial Number! R. C. Allen Adding Machines Manufacture Dates by January 1 Serial Number: Serial # Year Remarks Ref. 825000 & 952000 1937 Formerly Add-Index, Series changed to R.C. Allen at Serial # 825000 1 848000 & 962000 1938 1 856000 & […]
New PDF downloads in the Typewriter Database File Library for Typewriter Hunters!
New PDF downloads in the Typewriter Database File Library for Typewriter Hunters! Buncha new NOMDA Blue Books and some Olympia, Underwood and SCM dealer literature. Enjoy! File area is here, after you’ve logged in with a Typewriter Hunter account:
Sundstrand-Underwood Adding and Accounting Machines Dates of Manufacture by Serial Number, and Features and Keyboards Reference
Well, I’ve been making noise about working on adding machine stuff, seeing as I’ve been getting crates of Parts, Service and other dealer documentation on the things lately. This last batch of donated NOMDA Blue Books and an Underwood, Sundstrand and Elliot-Fisher Line Book have given me enough information to finally put together good Age […]
Quandry: Hermes manufacture dates – Typewriter Database
I have a quandry. I have only two sources for Hermes serial number dating that I’m studying for corrections to TWDB. My problem is that they both claim to be lists of Jan 1st numbers for the years represented, yet they seem to be a year off from each other, and neither wholly agrees with […]
National Office Machine Dealer Association 1980 Typewriter Age Guide
Bill Wahl down at Mesa Typewriter Exchange was kind enough to allow me to bring my scanner & a laptop down to his shop and scan in some of the old serial number info he has in his large file cabinet full of dealer catalogs, repair information and other ephemera he’s been collecting since his […]
Montgomery Ward Typewriters 1941-1985, Signatures, Forwards and Escorts and why certain rare Royal Typefaces can be found on Brother Typewriters!
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 It’s been a bit since I’ve browsed through Muse Technical’s Department store catalog archive, but the other night someone asked about an 80’s-era Penncrest machine on the FB – and that set me to looking at the archive again. What I’ve found is that […]
Carbons, The Long-Lived Neo, A Silhouette Mint, and other Crafty Things!
Weapon of Choice: “Dr. Lizardo” 1973 IBM Selectric II #26 1220365 Carter’s Blue Pencil Carbons found at a thrift for a couple bucks for a full box of 50. And so now I have reason to fire up the Neo again, just to check the battery, which is still at 100% after months since I […]
The Mystery of the Hermes 3000 Reversed Backspace and Tab keys and New Stuff To Read!
Weapon of Choice: “Easy” 1964 Hermes 3000 #3246817 https://typewriterdatabase.com/Hermes.3000.82.bmys 1959–David_Scadden-Approved_Home_Study_Course_in_Typewriter_Repair_and_Service-V1 https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/homestudycourse.pdf 1971-Royal-Type_Character_Combination_Catalog https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ri4DXbE1U8lzdnXmiCraTen6-4iBfUX8/view?usp=sharing 1966-1975-NOMDA_Blue_Book https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BvD8_msG7TLvs8eBtua9Y0-KHLKrt3gg/view?usp=sharing 195x-Remington-Standard-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonStandard19.pdf 1959-Remington-Standard-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonStandardSuper-Riter.pdf 1952-Remington-Noiseless_Standard-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonNoiseless10-1952.pdf 194x-Remington-Noiseless_Standard-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonNoiseless10-1950.pdf 195x-Remington-Fleetwing-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonFleetwing-manual.pdf 1953-Remington-Quiet_Riter-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/quietriter.pdf 1958-RC_Allen-Visomatic-UserManual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RCAllenVisOmatic.pdf 1976-Olivetti-Lexikon_83DL-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/OlivettiLexikon83DL.pdf 1970-Facit-1620-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/Facit1620.pdf 1920-Corona_3-User_Manual https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/Corona3-1920.pdf 196x-Olympia-Electric_50-Userman https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/OlympiaElectric50.pdf 196x-Olympia-SG3n-UserMan https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/OlympiaElectric50.pdf [Printed & Coil-Bound] [PDF] The Smith-Corona Series 6-7-88 Standard Typewriter Repair Bible is now available in […]
Leaping to the Defense of the Late 1950’s Underwood Portable
Weapon of Choice: “Tex”, 1957 Underwood Quiet Tab Deluxe (Golden Touch) Richard Polt’s post on his Typewriter Safari, which prompted thoughts on the Underwood Crest. UPDATE: This post came up in the Facebook ATC, prompting a discussion of this typeface, which I called “Slab-Serif”. Turns out the real name of the typeface is “Stymie”, and […]
Happy Typewriter Day! Now Turn your Bibles to Chapter…
Happy World Typewriter Day! It warms the cockles to see the celebration of this day spread the globe. No longer does the world require seed agency – the people are WOKE and events now spring up like fairy circles in the morning mist. The largest living organism in the world is not a Kraken, it’s […]
Practical Typewriter Collecting
Good evening, ladies and gents. Today’s sermon is for those who are newly inducted into the exciting world of collecting and admiring the writing machines of the past century. A bold journey awaits you, hidden on dusty shelves in thrift and antique stores, baking in the hot sun on rickety card tables at garage sales, […]