"Uwe" wrote:

sirius, surely you don't want to sell your grandmother's W35?

I understand your concerns. I don't like to dig out many personal details in public, but suffice it to say that I am by no means disregarding memories towards my grandmother. I do own many pieces of family heritage (including from my grandmother), so it is not as if I would give away the single link of the family. Then, I had a much stronger personal relationship with my grandfather than my grandmother and would be much more reluctant to giving away things from him (I even wear his old cravats...).

I'm an actual user of my typewriters, not a collector, and this typewriter doesn't really fit the way I use them, which is the reason why I don't even have it at my flat, where there is only so much space available. My grandmother later also used a mechanical standard and even later an electrical typewriter, so there are even more typewriters to serve memories. It's not that there's only this particular machine.

So, I hope these explanations make my intentions a little more understandable and I do not receive your rightful anger.

(and yes, you spotted the typo: it's a 35, not a 36)

sirius

My public thanks to such a kind gentleman too.

@Tristan: I sent you a PM today.