new museum

typewriters.ch museum III
please take note of the hoarding aspect of "collecting" typewriters

done for the day

Some before - after action: who says the Swiss are not orderly?

I got the sign from my friend Markus

open upon request - please visit!
  

typewriter gender issues 1997

Typewriter "Futura Tronic", made by Mehano in Slovenia, out of the factory on 3 July 1997

typewriter spotting at dOCUMENTA (13)

Geoffrey Farmer did a great installation at this year's Documenta:

Leaves of Grass. 2012 Hundreds of shadow puppets that have fabricated from photographs cut out from fifty years of the magazine Life (1935 - 1985).

I could spot a Smith Corona Silent.

You can spot one more calculating machine here.  

Letterheads IV

The fourth - and probably last installment for a while. My printer wants some new ink.
All of the letterheads provided here are French, except for the one of the legendary Merz typewriter works.

 

Letterheads III

They keep coming in...

Some typewriter ads

Just for the beauty of it.

The little grey Antares portable in its blue case.

The same machine, but in much more elegant finishing (two tone).

my Good Lady

A quite original ad with the gentleman on the left folding and unfolding.

There we go: the Erika, sold in France as Gloria (ad from 1913).

No traveling without her...

"Travel with the light Kolibri". Kolibri being the humming-bird in German language.

Ready, steady, go.

A rare and spectacular ad explaining the Hermes 2000's name: 2000 BC, god Hermes gave humankind the alphabet - now Paillard gives the World a writing instrument fit for the year 2000 AD.

I wish I had one - still looking.