Secret Society Wars: Cycle 17
Month: August 2011
Moneypenny’s Turn at Bat, plus some notes on Beeching…
Joanie’s Got A New Platen!
Adler Arrives, and a shift in focus…
Speaking of digital things from the 20th Century…
Review: “The Wonderful Writing Machine” and the Herd, semi-collected
The History of the Typewriter (Underwood Corp, 1950)
Let the book-learnin’ commence!
Universal Surveillance Report: Aug 15, 3011
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It’s worth what the market will bear
He’s makin’ a list, checkin’ it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or nice…
I’m cataloging all of my machines. This is step one of wrapping up my second phase of typewriter *collecting* and starting the path to fully appreciating the best specimens of the herd – the threaded stock, if you will. I’ve cataloged typing samples, a short blurb and serial numbers for everything except the 60’s SCM’s […]
Air Swissa, Golden Touch and Culling the Herd…
Three Free Machines!
The last evidence that these men ever existed…
Universal Surveillance Report: Aug 06, 3011
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Carbon Ribbon Test
PS: this is my 150th post, and whoever comments next will be my 500th non-spam commenter!
Trash Eighty Four Pea
The Return of Little Jake
My old page on Little Jake says he’s a 1934, but I’ve since learned that TW-DB is a bit off sometimes. The 1933 date comes from the NOMDA line book from 1964. Also, those pics don’t really show how nice the paint is. The third picture makes it look like the sides are all filthy […]
Swissa Junior!
The Swissa on Adwoa’s site
Universal Surveillance Report: 08-01-3011
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