Happy International Typewriter Day! Today commemorates the date in 1868 when Christopher Latham Sholes was granted a patent for the first commercially successful typewriter.
What are you doing to celebrate? I’m writing about the typewriter market to help out beginning collectors.
Give your typewriter a good beating on this day, it is totally deserved
WOW… congratulations to one and all!!!!!
I am hoping to finally acquire an air compressor for improving their maintenance cleanings, lend a couple typewriters to my nephews for the duration of their vacation in Costa Rica, upload several entries into the TWDB and just maybe add another ♂️
i’m writing a short story about seahorses (based on the style of The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy) for my bestie’s bday… i’ll knock a few pages out this evening for our fearless leader of type, writer of patents!
@chrisaldrich Be sure to send me the link when that’s posted. Would be a good one for The Cramped.
New to typewriters and this community (as of last week) and am basking in my timing. My newly acquired Royal Quiet DeLuxe got as good of a cleaning as I could give it this weekend and I intend to type a couple of letters to friends this evening. ✌
@patrickrhone Happy Typewriter Day! Fresh off the press: Typewriter Repair Costs and Valuation: Professional Shops versus Collectors versus First Time Buyers
@chrisaldrich Linked! Thanks. As an amateur with a small collection of my own and my best local shop now closed (Vale, RIP) it’s a good and useful guide.
Thanks @patrickrhone! I’ve heard rumors that despite closing down the shop, Mark Soderbeck is still doing some work out of his house if you need him.
@chrisaldrich Hmmm… Noted!
Well, I wish I knew, but it was super hot today and I went to the waterpark
@chrisaldrich I’m going to find some cool typewriter stickers.
@llbbl I met Bryan Mahoney at a type-in recently at the International Printing Museum and he had a broad selection of some great stickers, some (most?) of which he’s got on his website.
Of course my favorite stickers (for my typewriter at least) are some “This machine kills fascist” ones I got from the Woodie Guthrie museum last year.