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A mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element.
A charity shop acquisition, the Imperial 200 has serial number 1249067 and was produced between 1970 and 1971. The model 200 existed from 1969 to 1973. These were Silver-Seiko Portables made in Japan and badged under Royal and Imperial marques. Comments on the design It has a compact design and when closed has dimensions of…
Another acquisition from a charity shop. It came in a case with a working zipp and carrying handle and was in good working condition. As it had not been used for some time it came with the usual ‘musty’ smell. The serial number was found to the right side of the bell. The number 622428…
This was rejected by an auction house and was to be returned to its owner, but I had the opportunity to view it and thought it was in reasonable condition to acquire. Its serial number W 122158 (on the right top of the frame, under the right end of the carriage) indicated that it was…
Passed to me from within the family, the typewriter came with a case and was in working condition apart, from two inoperative keys (question mark and percentage) and some keys sticking. The serial number B4A02505 at the rear bottom of the frame indicated that it was bult in 1930 with the ‘B’ denoting the colour…
The Facit was acquired from a charity shop and came with a faux leather case, dust cover, an instruction manual and a qwerty keyboard set up for the Swedish language. The serial number was located behind the left ribbon spool. Some faults were present to do with the shift and backspace mechanisms – these were…
I bought this Triumph Tippa, complete with case and instruction manual, for £20 from a charity shop. It worked ‘straight out of the box’ as it needed minimal attention apart from cleaning the keys, buying a new ribbon and making the missing locking plate to hold the keys in place when transported. I use it…
The typewriter with its case, original dust cover and instructions was bought at auction. The paperwork supplied showed it had been owned by a lady in Surbiton and serviced in January 1981 and 1982 by a local typewriter maintenance company ‘Surbiton Typewriters’, 10 Winthrop House, Surbiton. According to its serial number, BR 948893, it was…
The Underwood Noiseless Portable, a rebranded version of the Remington Noiseless Portable, was a popular model of portable typewriter through the 1930s. The attractive physical appearance of the Noiseless Portable echoes the streamlined Art Deco contours favoured by designers in the 1920s and 1930s and the resulting Noiseless Portable is considered by many collectors to…