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This is my vintage stapler, an Arrow 210. I didn't know anything about staplers when I bought it, just that I wanted an old one and this was a good price. I bought it up the way up to the typewriter gathering at Herman Price's Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum. Incidentally there was a really cool presentation on paper fasteners there and I learned a lot. This is a pretty typical stapler except that the top comes off for convenient tacking. There is also a three way anvil for permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary (or splayed) stapling. |
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But do any of you have an old school tape dispenser? I know nothing about this except it is cast iron and would make a great head smashing weapon in the imminent zombie apocalypse. |
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My writing desks, comfy recliner for reading, and record player in the corner. The brass desklamp is vintage, the desk fan is Wal-Mart I think (I saw one like it there recently) but both add perfectly to the look I was shooting for. |
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Other side of the room. Too many typewriters? Not possible. |
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My spiffy writing desk I got for free with the condition I should clean all the mold off first. It took a little bit of elbow grease and some hydrogen peroxide but it wasn't too bad. |
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Oh yes, it is one of these desks... :) |
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It had a crappy 70s Smith Corona electric in it when I got it. That machine is now just kinda chillin on my front porch. The Underwood was a perfectly attractive and fun to use machine that I don't care enough about so that if the desk collapses it will have been less of a loss than other machines I have considered. |
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I am sure you saw my wall hangings in the other pics, here are some closer up photos. Sorry I don't have a large tripod and they are blurry. From top to bottom, left to right: Royal KMG ad from eBay, boxy-body Hermes 3000 ad from eBay, Smith Corona portable ad from eBay, and WWII era Royal KMM ad from eBay. |
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Top to bottom: WWII Royal KMM ad I found in a Saturday Evening Post magazine at an antique store, Royal ad with awesome comic style graphics from the 40s I got on eBay, and WWII Smith Corona ad I found on my own in another Saturday Evening Post. |
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Another WWII Smith Corona ad I found. |
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Sorry this is blurry, but I don't know about posting other people's words on my blog... might take better pics one day. Anyhow from top to bottom these are: a certificate saying my KMM was used in a David Baldacci film called Wish You Well signed by the propmaster who I loaned it to, a personal letter from Tom Hanks typed on a Smith Corona Silent-Super, an award from Virginia Tech signed by now best selling author Edward Falco who was one of my professors, a signed form letter from Dean Koontz, and a letter from Steve Soboroff typed on Ernest Hemingway's Royal. |
Robert Messenger, if you are reading this I DO have the awesome poster you gave me at the Chestnut Ridge event and I intend to hang it but until I find work and make some money I won't be able to frame it and put it up.