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Photo Shooting

I finally found some time to finish my project of taking pictures of all my typewriters. I'll let the images speak for themselves today. More typing, and photos of the surprise I've got in Bellinzona, next time.
Typed on my Erika 120
Winterthur, 13 May 2019

My new lime green Hermes Baby

Hermes 3000

Erika 120

13 May 2019 by Stève 2 Comments

Still around

Time flies and other priorities and interests stood in the way of continuing to write typecests. Sincs my last post, almost five years ago, we moved into a new home which required me to sell some of my typewriters and having most of the remaining ones stored out of sight. In an attempt to get rid of some stuff which still hadn't found a permanent place in our house, also these typewriters resurfaced. So here's a quick overview about my remaining collection. We have the Hermes 3000 with an interesting Techno-Elite font which I am using for this post. Then of course I kept the perfectly working and beautiful IBM Selectric III. Also in almost perfect working condition, but with some wear and tear we have the sturdy Hermes Ambassador with the special characters shown in an earlier post. Also taking a lot of space but still not working: one of the two Hermes 808 typeball typewriters mentioned in my last post, the second one was sold, but also the remaining one is now listed for sale. Let me know if you are interested to have it. Last but not least, from my wife's family, an Erika 120, manufactured 1980 in Dresden, at that time still in the German Democratic Republic. As I am now trying to decide which ones of these typewriters I'd like to keep, you will probably see more posts with the different machines in the next couple of weeks, as some typing might make the decision process easier. Honestly, probably it will make it much more difficult. And I shouid get some correcting tape, or use the IBM which has it inside.

16 April 2019 by Stève 6 Comments

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