- TypewriterGuy
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
Is that a joke?!?!??!
I hope so...
Back from a long break.
Starting fresh with my favorite typer. A Royal Futura!
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
thetypewriterman wrote:
You've got to look at this
That's brilliant! Even the ad heading, that it was an "antic" was funny. I assume he meant antique? It's not cheap mind you, but I would have bought it for display purposes.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- TypewriterKing
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
You've got to look at this: Just a few kys missing, still has ink - a really easy restoration
It looks like they raised that one from the "Titanic."
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
Hahahaha!
Look! Another!
How can it be from WW11 if it's from the 50s?
Apparently the seller must have thought World War II lasted until at least 1957.
I remember a long time ago seeing promos of a movie called, "My Favorite Year." It was set in 1954, but I clearly saw in one of the office scenes a Royal FP, which didn't come into existence until 1957 (or could it have been late 1956?).
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
Oh those Royal FPs - gotta get one someday!
You'll have to put one of your new magnetic "rabbit ear antennae" paper rests on it.
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
To me, rare is kind of a relative term. Keep in mind I don't get around very much. I have never heard of an Alpina until I came on this forum. Now I want to find one. I have a Consul portable, which for a long time I had considered rare, but I have been seeing a few more of them lately. But I can tell you one machine that I can almost guarantee IS rare--a Remington Statesman electric upright typewriter. It was Remington's version of an IBM Executive--proportionally spaced and all. I had ONE. I think there were about three altogether around this area of Texas at one time. It must have been made about the latter fifties. I wish I had kept it, if for no other reason, but a curiosity. It was like one of their standard electric typewriters--about as reliable--good for about half a page between tuneups. Plus, since it was an escapement wheel machine (as opposed to the interposers used on an Executive, which I think I owned most of them that came through Waco, and still have one or two left I'm going to fix up someday), it had to choose how much space it allowed for each letter, so it was slow. I guess it was for that reason it was not popular.
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
Oh my...
I have lost all hope....
I get regular keys.... but, TOUCH TYPING KEYS?!Whats worse?
Chopping that or a 6cpi L.C smith Super-Speed (early style).
What's worse is that Scabs the Keychopper may still be out there today preying on hapless typewriters!!
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Re: Best laugh in typewriter ads
Evidently, the seller forgot to press that button
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