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Correction tapes and ribbons for a Swintec, also compatable with many Brother models and some other major brands.

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Where have you been for the last century?

feat: two of the same model of Ideal, a Mercedes, and an Orga.

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Things I don't expect to see in the States: a Facit 1620 (1969-1977). Swedish-made though their advertising said they were world-renouned, this model is reportedly one of the best machines ever produced.

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Smith-Corona 'Sterling Cartridge'... the black sheep of the family.

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Another Cyrillic typewriter: a Janalif 'Model B' from 1939.

Produced in Kazan in 1928-1931. 'Yanalif' is from Yan - new, and Alif - alphabet: "New Alphabet", from the time when the Russian language was reformed.

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See a cyrilic 1952 Olympia 'Progress' stripped down to a hundred parts then put back together again like it was no big deal. Credit where it's due, we don't see the person be even more masochistic and remove the keycaps... taking out the bed and all the hammers for individual cleaning was insane enough.

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Nearly immaculate 1920s Corona typewriter.

I have no idea why the front panel has paint decay in those areas yet not around the periphery or center... were those style elements that didn't weather very well over time?

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Just obtained another Change-A-Type hammer: angle brackets.

For you younglings: Typewriters usually only have parenthesis, making higher math magnitudes (brackets, braces) a problem and demonstrating HTTP pretty much impossible.

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Mad City Modern has several typewriters in his workspace. Both of these are 1950s Smith-Coronas, and there are at least two other machines visible when the camera moves around the room.

Here's the restoration of a card catalog where this cap came from.

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SCM "Coronamatic 2500", the accursed member of the series from the 1980s that also produced my high school friend the DeVille C/T. I say it's cursed because while the others of that family had regular spool ribbons, this one has a Coronamatic ribbon cartridge.

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Tools of the trade: typing paper.

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Was not expecting this deep thought to show up in a Facebook reel: Jack Handey sitting around writing with a rather large electric typewriter on his lap.

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Smith-Corona 'Enterprise', the awkward younger sibling of the DeVille who doesn't get talked about very often.

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Smith-Corona 'Coronamatic Cartridge 12', good machine with a regrettable replaceable ribbon cartridge system.

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Royal 'Academy' typewriter, so you can say you "attended the royal academy" when all you really did was write something about a fox jumping over a dog on a stray piece of paper.

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Hey there, Lego lover! I can appreciate your position since I hate it when credit gets stolen and good works get duplicated (sloppily at that). Thanks for the link to the proto and, wow, you are right, the differences are pretty minor. It's pretty much the custom fab pieces and brick differences in "working with what we have" that separate A from B, though again I do wonder about that red crank. I will however say that the Chinese model has a convincing hammer guide where the Lego version would irritate me in its being too narrow.

Before I looked at that proto I was going to say: "A brick typewriter" is not necessarily a copy of another brick typewriter, but an interpretation of what a typewriter looks like -- half the time by people who have obviously never seen one in person, ala the Gripsholm Lion. This fact becomes really obvious in the 2-3 brick machines I've seen in ads where they couldn't get all the keys where they belong, so there are no numbers and the top row goes to I so they stick O and P on the bottom row. :-P

You'll dig this story: Other day I was in a thrift and there was a boxed set of the Space Needle, which was sold by a giftshop at the Seattle Center (I probably can even name the exact store). Originally $20, I got for $6.50, and the brand was Impact Photographics who probably used some Chinese brick maker for the parts. Thrifted brick bags like that usually cost half that. It was in its box but sealed in a bag so I couldn't give it a look inside. Got home excited, opened it, and inside were two Ziplock bags containing parts, no instructions, and I could tell from the bricks shown in the box photos that half the kit was missing. No base, no terrestrial accessories, half the window glass... Shit! This store doesn't do returns on anything but clothes and electronics. I compared bricks to the ones from Daiso (I have like 15 of their kits broken down) and no, not compatable but look close.

Definitely a pleasure to reblog you, also. I love your work! :-D

Another Temu brick typewriter, and the second one I've seen where there's an inexplicable crank on one side.