192x Yost 20 #TC50070
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
Created: 02-04-2021 at 11:16AM
Last Edit: 02-04-2021 at 12:07PM
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Description:
Or 191x ???
As found.
French-Romanian keyboard, it has spent the last ??? years as a stage furniture of a theater.
Not the kind of machine I am interested on, but the grasshopper typebars are interesting.
It seems to be complete and in working conditions, but I really don't know how to ink the ink-pad.
In any case, it seems that if and when I will put it back to writing conditions, there will be a lot of work to get the type aligned.
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Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
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