103 years old and it inspires… the Monarch #2
Views at the Monarch…
Category: Typewriters
I circle the Barr (Morse)…
Just could not resist the play on words…
1914 Harris Visible brochure…
Being in the holiday mood I offer 18 pages from a 1914 Harris Visible brochure in PDF form (click on link to view).
Monarch Noiseless 8… in flight!
The fact that this was a Monarch instead of a Remington Noiseless… caught my eye and it still fly’s in its own way… And for only 20 bucks it soars!
Blickensderfer 8 rolls with fresh ink!
Well I soaked the roller this morning and started to type. Getting good results… now to move on to getting a good looking page.
(a)kappel(la)… 1936
Just the music of the typewriter ” a capella…” which ran through my mind when I saw this 1936 Kappel V.A. portable.
Western Union/Underwood still delivers…
Made for use by Western Union… this centurion still brings the news…
My sears typewriter… may out live Sears the store
From 1973 to 1998 the Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world. In 2009 it was renamed the Willis Tower. One could say my typewriter is just a renamed Smith Corona… Under my fingertips it is a Sears!
1958 Oliver I’ll call Hardy…
What’s in a name? Enough to make me curious…
I raise the Barr (Morse Universal)….
All it took was to lift up the ribbon just a bit… tie it in place with a twist tie and this Barr became marvelous…
