Bama1975 wrote:

Anybody have any info on this?

Info on what? The links you posted are to your own eBay auctions and are not appropriate for this thread. If you have items to sell, please list them in the correct sub-forum along with a description of the item. In the meantime I've deleted your two posts here that come a little too close to shilling than I like.

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I just saw this on ebay -- The listing simply says "The Noiseless". Anyone know who made it? I haven't seen a body quite like that and I was just curious.  I'm in no way interested in buying it because $650?! Here's the full link in case I messed something up with the image - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Noiseless-Portable-typewriter-serial-no-2112-circa-1921-/331657903450?hash=item4d3859fd5a

Freja wrote:

Anyone know who made it? I haven't seen a body quite like that and I was just curious.

Noiseless was a typewriter manufacturer. The seller, Howard, is local to me and a real early model specialist. He's been listing quite a few machines lately and it makes me wonder if he's slowly selling off his collection.
 

KatLondon wrote:

God, that is beautiful.

The whole story is here.

Thanks for that, KatLondon! 

malole wrote:

Is this really Arne Dhal's typewriter

I'll admit that I'd never heard of the man; however, a quick internet search provided enough information to make me suspect that the claim is a stretch of the seller's imagination.

First, unless I missed something when I skimmed through the eBay auction, the seller has nothing to prove his claim other than an address sticker on the machine. Such a label is hardly an undisputable sign of authenticity. For example, what would prevent me from creating an address label containing Hemingway's name and address in Key West, slap it on an old Royal portable, and then claim it belonged to the author? Did you notice that the sticker is covering another address sticker? You can just make out some of the text despite the poor photograph, and I'm sure the information gleaned from it would be very pertinent to this claim.

Next there's the inescapable fact that it's a Norwegian language typewriter, and Arne Dahl, the author, is Swedish. Why would a Swedish writer use a Norwegian typewriter?

Also worth pointing out, the names 'Arne' and 'Dahl' are very common throughout Scandinavia and Germany, so it isn't difficult to find a number of actual Norwegians who would have used a Norwegian typewriter and were also named Arne Dahl. Maybe the typewriter was actually owned by this Arne Dahl instead? I don't doubt that this particular Adler was owned by Arne Dahl, but I would question which one.

My skepticism aside, if I wanted verify the seller's claim I would find out if Dahl actually lived or worked in Mandelieu, France, as the information on the machine suggests. If it turned out that he had spent time writing on the outskirts of Canne it would certainly be too much of a coincidence to ignore, and I'd then be compelled to contact the author directly to see if he had ever owned an Adler Gabriele 25. Of course this is something that the eBay seller should have done first in the first place before creating facts based on such little information, and linking the machine's service dates to the years the author published certain works. Again, maybe I didn't read his description carefully enough, but the seller implies a number of things without providing a shred of proof for the conclusions he reached. Then again, as we all know, the internet is built upon outlandish claims and wild speculation, which is why I've always called it the misinformation highway.

If I was a big fan of this author it would certainly be worth pursuing this further, especially given the modest price of the typewriter, but until someone proves beyond doubt that it was actually owned by him, I'd treat this machine as I would any other Adler Gabriele.