Those Marvelous Machines

From: Antiques & Collecting Magazine | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: Champlin, Tim | Copyright information

JUNK. FOH THE PAST quarter century, that's what most people have considered the manual typewriter-a relic of a bygone age. the bones of an ancient dinosaur. It seems that every family has at least one collecting dust in the attic or basement. oil congealing on the keys, inked ribbons fading, a former faithful servant, forgotten. These still workable machines that once belonged to a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle, began to turn up in yard sales or flea markets. Smelling musty from long sto...

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