Monday, November 30, 2015

Massive Typewriter Hoard (and video)



This is just one aisle, the fullest aisle, before I went through it.  Check out this video of the entire room 



Here is the link to Equipping The Saints

7 comments:

  1. Whoa! What a stash. And the unusual machines you mention really are rare finds.

    A couple of the SM9's I bought from you at Herman's have found appreciative new homes.

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    1. Excellent! Hopefully we can find good homes for all of these... Certainly there is a lot of work to be done. If you find yourself near Staunton, Virginia you should check it out.

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  2. Gulp! You have your work cut out with that lot. I'm sure you'll help the charity enormously by the sifting and tagging you have been doing.

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  3. WOW, just WOW! :D
    Been taking pics & serial numbers? (:

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    1. Not really, there are so many machines, and mostly they are less interesting ones. It has been enough work just sifting through everything. I can post the 10 keys if JP never gets to it, and I have the info from the presentation. If you want the K3 on the database you will have to talk to Will Davis since I have no pictures of that one (I figure anything I would want to know about it would be easy to get, Will is great). Anything else very unusual we can try and document, and if you like I suppose we could try and help you with your datecode project since there are so many SCM 6 series... Thing is it is a 2+ hour drive and when I am there I try to do as much basic sorting as possible. If it was right down the road I could do more I am sure.

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    2. Yeah, if anything, the SCM datecodes would be of greatest value. just getting a cell pic of the code & serial together would be enough (on 6-series, they should both be on the bottom of the machine) - I'd sort through 'em and type 'em up if it helps :D

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  4. Great post - great video. That sounds like such interesting and satisfying volunteer work; it's a win-win for the organization and for collectors.

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