- Tom Morel
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
I found the script for a Shakespeare play in a Royal Quiet Deluxe. Would post it post but there are some obscenities.
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
In it? Wow...
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Thread Starter- colrehogan
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
I found a purple marble inside my L.C. Smith model 8. I think it was wedged in under the typebars.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
Gabby Johnson wrote:
While cleaning a Selectric II that I found in a thrift store I found in the bottom pan a dried mushroom, which resembled the psilocybin variety I came to know in college three decades ago.
Wow. That's an impressive find.
I believe I've posted this elsewhere on the forum, but the most interesting thing I've found inside a typewriter (among the half-dozen screwdrivers, metal files, packet of staples, ball of dog hair and cable tie that came with my Olivetti M44) was a torn-up eviction notice. Stranger still, it was addressed to someone living on the other side of the country.
Everything in this photo fell out when I turned the machine upside down. The rest was lodged inside the mechanism.
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
Holy...
Just what machine dd that come out of?
(What if you said a Corona 3! I would laugh...)
Oh, the Olivetti?
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Thread Starter- thetypewriterman
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
Gabby - that must have been a very small toadstool, because there isn't 'mushroom' in there 
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
Gabby - that must have been a very small toadstool, because there isn't 'mushroom' in there
Good one, Tom!
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
I have not found anything of interest so far except that spiders sometimes live in typewriters, but I did see Craigslist listing recently under Free Stuff for a typewriter in Katonah, NY. Quoth the owner "There is a small mouse that got trapped inside and died".
I can't find the listing anymore - it may have been a 1940's Royal office machine. I once found a dead mouse in a shirt which had dropped to the floor - just at the liquification stage. I threw out the shirt. No mention of the state of preservation of this mouse
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Actually, come to think of it, I did find a fossilised bat trapped inside a Hammond that a customer wanted restoring. I'm pretty sure that the Hammond had been kept in a shed for years, which is probably how the bat got there.
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Re: Whats the strangest thing you have found in a typewriter?
I have not found anything of interest so far except that spiders sometimes live in typewriters, but I did see Craigslist listing recently under Free Stuff for a typewriter in Katonah, NY. Quoth the owner "There is a small mouse that got trapped inside and died".
I can't find the listing anymore - it may have been a 1940's Royal office machine. I once found a dead mouse in a shirt which had dropped to the floor - just at the liquification stage. I threw out the shirt. No mention of the state of preservation of this mouse
Yes, I actually inquired of the seller how "far gone" the mouse was, and where exactly the little fella was -- I figured a free typewriter (L.C. Smith Silent Secretarial) might be worth the squeamishness. But someone has claimed it already; just as well.
