- TypewriterGuy
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Re: Your Ebay watch list
@Ztyper Haha Ive got to try putting my ugly machines next to my nicer ones to make them look nicer. 
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Re: Your Ebay watch list
KatLondon wrote:
Surely this has to be the ugliest thing anyone here has ever seen... I've looked at it several times today in a sort of morbid fascination...
I actually love the way it looks and would buy it in a heartbeat if it was local to me. As is, even if they offered international shipping, I'd be afraid of the cost. For some reason parcel post from the UK to Canada is usually astronomically expensive.
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Surely this has to be the ugliest thing anyone here has ever seen... I've looked at it several times today in a sort of morbid fascination...
I actually love the way it looks and would buy it in a heartbeat if it was local to me. As is, even if they offered international shipping, I'd be afraid of the cost. For some reason parcel post from the UK to Canada is usually astronomically expensive.
I'm with you -- maybe it's one of those "jolie laide" things, but I find it rather cool looking, actually. Of course, handsome is as handsome does.
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It all depends what type of machines you like. I like the huge old 100 year old standards.
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Surely this has to be the ugliest thing anyone here has ever seen... I've looked at it several times today in a sort of morbid fascination...
I actually love the way it looks and would buy it in a heartbeat if it was local to me. As is, even if they offered international shipping, I'd be afraid of the cost. For some reason parcel post from the UK to Canada is usually astronomically expensive.
I agree with Uwe on this one... I'm not big on standards but I love the bold, ribbed front -- and that ABC logo tops it!
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I admit it is interesting! But looks to me like the typewriter precursor of a giant warehouse store. V much of its time, yes yes. Visceral personal reaction! I do find it kind of fascinating but not in a way that makes me want it in the house...
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I do find it kind of fascinating but not in a way that makes me want it in the house...
I would not only want it in the house, but proudly displayed in a prominent location where it would be majestically presented atop a velvet perch and bathed in the soft incandescent glow of a lone flood lamp. Visitor's would be filled with awe at first sight, and only after donning white cotton gloves, be allowed to trace their fingertips over its seductive and alluring form. Lesser machines in the house would be obliged to pay tribute to its magnificence, and to quietly curse the ineptness of the designers responsible for their comparative shortcomings and relative ugliness.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Hahaha! The Brothers and Silver Reeds...
Well I have to say, I like this image! I;m all for over-the-top. Anyway it's going cheap ;)
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- M. Höhne
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It's not a good sign that it's in the case upside down (although I would worry less about it here than in a hard case with anchorages).
