Matthew Weaver (the Guardian)Thorpe is often amused by the objects he finds in the machines. “I’ve found pens, memory sticks, house keys, Lego bricks, little rubber toys, all sorts inside,” he says.
I often find things inside typewriters…
LEGO (multiple), a chicken leg from a Calico Critters playset, a tiny 70s photo of a child, the stub of a pencil, glitter, a pocket knife, a mini clothespin…
And naturally lots and lots of eraser bits, loose screws, loose springs, dust rhinoceroses, dried white out, dirt, cobwebs, even dead spiders, and even love.
What’s the oddest thing you’ve found in a typewriter?
I don’t know about odd, but IBM Selectrics have a few c clamps as apart of their clutch. And I had been missing one, but sure enough, stuck in the deteriorating foam, was the small clamp I needed to get it running again.
an egg shell (royal dart) A caulking tube tip (also a royal dart) a bone or a small animal (sill the dart) a note saying “hi I’m Peggy Sue! I’m putting this in Mommy’s typewriter I hope she finds it.” there was a response in pencil saying “I found it!!” ( Coronet electric )
grass, and a bunch of colorful heart shaped stickers
One of those magnetic letters you stuck on the fridge in the 1970s.
A rubber eraser pen for typewritten text, carbon paper, and the name plate for the door of the typewriters’ former owners’ house. I bolted the plate to the case of the typewriter, very much to the joy of that man’s daughter.
I found an oversized Lego brick in my LC Smith 8. I saw someone online found an antique cigar cutter in theirs!
A wasp nest, thankfully abandoned
A pink plastic sink faucet from a dollhouse, and a blue fake fingernail with a white cloud and bird painted onto it.
A small chunk of wood