1925 Erika 3 #67195
Status: Parting Out
Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
Created: 04-28-2024 at 09:05AM
Last Edit: 04-28-2024 at 09:32AM
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A disreputable Eastern European sold this to me as a "working" maschine, and I might wish the pillory still to be employed. (Missing many parts, with the carriage nicht advancing) Ha! I fool him, because I only wanted this as a sacrificial maschine, needing only the escapement to complete another No.3 of infinitely more beauty. I knew he was a trickster, and I tricked the trickster.
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Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 106
Ja, I am happy a collector of Schreibmaschine to be, und to hunt them down like dogs for my collection to have. My erste Schreibmachine I have fondly remembered was an old American Royal portable -- 1930s? How I got this one, where it came from, I cannot recall -- und so on a QWERTY to type learnt. Happily, most of my Maschinen now have the QWERTZ, und so for the deutsche Maschinen mostly I look, though I do not despise the qualität-built amerikanischer Maschinen.
I not only am collecting, but I use each one in my epistolary endeavors. If the revolution is being typwritten, then we must be about our business typing.
Ich liebe meine Frau; ich liebe meinen Hund; ich liebe eine Erika. Warum? Ich liebe Worte, Qualität, und Präzision!
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