The Holy Grail of Arthurian Manuscripts is for auction at Christie’s<br /> by [[Christopher Berard]] in Medievalists.net<br /> accessed on 2026-06-30T12:24:44
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The Master of the Liège Apocalypse The Clermont-Tonnerre Grail, in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Metz, c.1290-1310]
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For the long, dramatic close ups on soap operas at the end of a scene, one should use the time in various stages of thinking and reacting to the three ideas:<br /> - Did I leave the stove on? - I did leave the stove on. - No, I turned the stove off.
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Vocal group founded by Charles (Chuck) Goldstein in the mid 1940s. Goldstein previously was founder of The Modernaires. Four Chicks & Chuck also included Diane Carol, Claire Frim, Fran Barber and Marilyn Jackson.
Artist: Four Chicks & Chuck<br /> by [[Second Hand Songs]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-29T13:13:36
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Olympia typewriter song [sound recording]. - Record details - Library of Congress Catalog <br /> accessed on 2026-06-29T13:10:26
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Chuck Goldstein, was a members of The Modernaires singing group from the early/mid 30's until 1942. In 1940, they began singing with Glenn Miller and his orchestra. The day after Glenn disbanded the orchestra in 1942 (so he could join the Army), Chuck had left The Modernaires to pursue his own career. I believe around 1945 he formed a new singing group... That being Four Chicks and Chuck! They sung a few commercials, but they also did other songs. They sung with Kate Smith a decent amount. They weren't a long lasting group though, only going until around 1953. After that, Chuck formed Chuck Goldstein Productions, which focused on commercial jingles.
See also: Olympia Typewriter Song
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Cartoon typewriter depicted on the cover of House of Secrets, No. 18 (DC Comics)
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Typewriter repair people: - Scott Connors<br /> - Elisa Makoon-Singh
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Brooksaw Antiques purchased 1959 Olympia SM3 Script No. 75 on 2026-06-18 for $259.00 on eBay and relisted it, likely with almost no real work, on 2026-06-26 at eBay for $2,000.
Reduced by 20% days later to $1,600.
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reply to u/psitaxx at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ui2vvo/does_it_even_count_as_a_second_typewriter_if_its/
You're right that sometimes 1+1 is not equal to two.
For example 1 pile of laundry plus 1 pile of laundry is still 1 pile of laundry (just bigger), or 1 cloud merging with 1 cloud is still 1 cloud (albeit a different cloud). Sadly this is not the case with typewriters. 1 typewriter plus another 1 typewriter is 2 typewriters.
According to typewriter collector Keanu Reeves, you don't have a collection yet. That happens when you have 3, something you could never accomplish unless the math worked in the standard way.
Would that 1 typewriter + 1 typewriter = 1 typewriter! Then my collection of well over 30 wouldn't bother my wife, and I could say that I only have 1 typewriter...
Of course I can commiserate with your mint condition typewriter conundrum. Sometimes there's nothing better than getting something in mint condition, but often we all have hopes that it's not mint for one reason or another. I too was disappointed by a recent $21.95 purchase of an Olympia in perfect condition. Perhaps, as Frank Navasky said in You've Got Mail (Warner Bros., 1998), "I needed a backup."
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There don't appear to be any examples in the typewriter database, so be sure to create an account and upload the data and photos you've got. https://typewriterdatabase.com/register-today.php (It's not every day someone gets to upload a new make/model!)
Similar machines and details: - Gundka https://typewriterdatabase.com/no_info.414.typewriter-serial-number-database - Frolio https://typewriterdatabase.com/no_info.415.typewriter-serial-number-database
By drilling down into the database and looking at pictures and descriptions of other models as well as looking at the galleries for specific examples, you may be able to troubleshoot what is missing or "off" on your machine (which is obviously missing the spools, though you may be able to fashion something similar to get yours working.)
Other examples via online search may be helpful as well: - https://www.glennsantiques.co.uk/shop/p/02/060/11 - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-toy-typewriter-emg-dover-1000802769 - https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=EMG+Dover+Junior+typewriter&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313
Documenting your own example will make it much easier for collectors in the future.
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Secrets to Remembering Names and Faces (1988 Harry Lorayne) (VHS Rip)<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtrMtoxHGjI
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Byles, R. B. 1911. The Card Index System; Its Principles, Uses, Operation, and Component Parts. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/cardindexsystemi00bylerich (February 13, 2024).
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The preju-dice due to the supposed American origin of thesystem, stupid if the assumption were correct, doublystupid in view of its known European origin, hasceased to have its old influence, and as the necessity forgreater efficiency and a more accurate knowledge ofbusiness facts has become apparent, the popularity ofthe Card Index has increased, and it is not un-reasonable to anticipate that its ever-widening influencewill in the course of the next decade cause all othersystems to pass into oblivion.
R. B. Byles attributes the origin of the card index system to Europe, but provides no direct details or history.
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Filing of Replies.
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The "Out Card. MAs a safeguard where folders are taken from the filingroom, the " out card " supplied by the Library Bureau,Ltd., meets all requirements and entirely obviates thenecessity for costly charging cabinets which are some-times recommended.
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The capacity of asingle vertical drawer is approximately 2,000 letters
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would mean a considerable amount of work in sortingand re-arranging, ah drawers should be fitted with anautomatic locking appliance so that the drawer whenopened hurriedly cannot come right out of the cabinetuntil the lock is released. A similar appliance shouldalso be used with all vertical file drawers
To guard against an accidental upset of the drawer and its entire contents which in the absence of a rod
Card indexes and filing cabinets should have tray stops to help prevent pulling drawers out too quickly and losing all the file organization by dropping the drawer out on the floor.
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The Question of the Rod.
There are generally two types of rods for a card index:<br /> - plain rod with round hole that typically needs to be removed to insert cards. These are useful for safety (and not dumping cards out) or losing them (esp. in public settings like a library. - flat rod (various forms) allows cards to be 'locked" or released easily for filing efficiency, especially valuable for business use. - no rod at all; by 1911 there were more easily moved follower blocks which helped to get rid of the necessity of rods at all, at least in Byles' estimation.
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Cards are made in three weights, and in calculatingthe sized card cabinet required, it is convenient torecollect that the capacity of the standard depth draweris 1,000 light cards, 750 medium weight, and 500 heavycards.
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Cards are made in three standard sizes, the approximatemeasurements being 3 in. x 5, 4 in. x 6, and 5 in. x 8.The smallest size is sufficient for the file index, and thelargest is almost invariably used for the Ledger Cards.Whether for other purposes the middle or largest sizeis most suitable, must depend entirely on the specialruling, and the amount of information it is to contain.
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In a mistaken effort after economy some peoplerefrain from taking this advice, and have cards printedand cut at the local printing office. Whatever initialsaving is effected is dearly bought, for such cards areseldom cut with the mathematical accuracy necessaryfor satisfactory work.
He's not using the traditional wording, but he's talking about the need for having "cards of equal size" for use in a card index here.
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To purchase desks having innumerablepigeon-holes and drawers on the assumption that theywill be useful for something is both uneconomical andunwise. In the modern office every receptacle formaterial that has no definite purpose is a snare, itinvites disorder, and encourages slovenly methods.
In the past, desks with a number of pigeon holes were used as part of one's database and organizational system. Once card indexes and filing cabinets came to the fore, these affordances of desks ultimately disappeared.
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As regards appliances the makers cater for the manwhose ledger accounts can be housed in a single drawer,as well as for the business whose accounts are numberedby the hundreds of thousands. Generally, ledger cardsare made 8 inches wide by 5 inches high, but to meetthe demand for a card giving more room for entries,cards are often printed eight inches high and five incheswide. These necessitate a different shaped drawer,and when used in large quantities a considerable economyin space is effected by building them into a book-keeper'sdesk, provided with a sliding top.
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enough has been said to show both itselasticity and adaptability.
card systems are highly adaptable
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Elasticity of the Card Index.
the fact that one's notes can grow in any individual location by placing a new card between any two others is a supremely valuable affordance
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The argument most frequently put forward is that thebound book affords greater security against falsification.
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A compre-hensive register of this description will naturally involvesome labour, but in most cases it will be built up bydegrees, and the time occupied will merely be the timeof a subordinate, whilst the time such a register willeventually save, will be that of a principal or executiveofficer.
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colours can be used to differentiatebetwreen various classes of possible customers.
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The districts visited by different travellerscan be kept distinct, and to prevent the possibility ofmisfiling a colour, distinction can be introduced.
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ageographical arrangement of the cards will be necessary.
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Each day, the cards under the day's date aretaken out, attended to and put back under the datewhen they will next require attention, with the resultthat no matter of importance is overlooked, and yet
the mind is relieved from the strain of attempting to recollect innumerable details.
Similar to the idea of a Memindex which was contemporaneous.
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Example of a follow up card for a business.
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If newspaper advertising has been employed, ananalysis of these returns will show the exact advertisingcost per order, and the relative value of different adver-tising media.
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A better method is toarrange the cards alphabetically and rely on the assist-ance of signals to indicate the days on which they are toreceive attention.
By signals, he means flags (perhaps colored) attached to an individual card to mean something specific for potential follow up, for example: a date or day of the week.
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A decreased turnoverwith a particular customer must have some cause.
The card index system is certainly an early form of customer relationship management (CRM).
What are the 1-1 details that it has (as described in this book or Kaiser's) and modern versions? - contact information<br /> - detailed notes about interactions and history<br /> - follow up / reminder features<br /> - Others??
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In no other form and under noother system could the same information be registered,with as small an expenditure of time and trouble, andwith the same certainty of its attracting attention.
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or a reminder tray.
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Nosystem can be made fool-proof, but the object shouldbe to make it as near fool-proof as possible on theside where error can work most harm.
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as it grows older a press cutting has a tendencyto increase in interest and value. With correspondencethe exact opposite is the case. To file the two together istherefore illogical.
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To indicate subjects requiringindex cards, when answering a letter, it is only necessaryto circle the essential words with a blue pencil,
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Such letters should therefore be not merelyindexed under the name of the writer, but a second andpossibly a third and fourth card should be made outunder subject or place.
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A certain type of clerk, if given a free hand, will indexfor the sake of indexing, apparently under the impressionthat the value of his work is to be judged by the numberof cards used. Such misplaced energy should of coursebe repressed at once, as the multiplication of uselesscards is a hindrance rather than a help.
A similar disease can be seen in electronic tagging systems of some PKM people...
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Numerical Arrangement.
Byles lays out a consecutive numbering system for correspondence folders.
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A file based on thecard index system is, on the other hand, a satisfactoryand economical system of dealing with every sort ofmaterial, and is moreover a thing alive, ready at alltimes to place at the disposal of those who consult itall that information which in the past was regardedas the special attribute of the man of long experience.
esp. note the idea of it being alive
begs the question of what "alive" means....
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The card systemis a " one-place " system.
How does the "one-place" system work with respect to the idea of "multiple storage"?
What about cross-indexing?
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The card index, on the other hand,allows for unlimited expansion.
In contrast to, for example, an address book which is not reorderable (easily).
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It would be un-grateful not to acknowledge with appreciation theobligation owed to the publishers of that most excellentbusiness magazine, " System/' from the pages of whichanyone interested in modern business methods mustinevitably derive some inspiration.
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Roughly speaking, the world is divided into two classes :those who use the Card Index System and those whodo not.
HA!
I wonder where this trope started?
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You said the difference between your commonplace and a Zettelkasten was form and binding? Could you expand on your set up/process? It looks like your cards are loose like a zettel, but I do see a to-do tab which isn’t zettel-y.
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I'm not talking about my specific practice but commonplacing and Zettelkasten writ large. Early users of slips in the tradition of ars excerpendi were commonplacing, they were just putting their excerpts onto slips (or scraps) of paper rather than in a notebook. Far too many think the idea of Zettelkasten was "invented" by Niklas Luhmann when in fact the tradition goes back to at least Konrad Gessner in the 16th century. There was absolutely nothing innovative about Luhmann's Zettelkasten—even his numbering system was widely used by the mid 1910s. Early Zettelkasten (aka card indexes in English) were commonplaces, just done on slips of paper rather than bound "slips" in book format.
The more recent "Zettelkasten Method" practitioners, (roughly after June 2013) have largely omitted the centuries-long intellectual history of their practice and are guilty of too much Luhmann worship. On the other hand, they hew heavily toward the minimalist approach and don't decorate their work with stickers, drawings, or other art which seems to have come into fashion in the social media era. This is what I would call "drolleries on acid" without the benefit of knowing about the tradition of ars memoria.
My practice with these goes well beyond commonplacing. Most early 20th century card indexes were used for a variety of purposes beyond commonplacing too including indexing, tickler files, databases, rolodexes, etc. What you're describing sounds more like my modified Memindex practice (https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/). You'll find more on my particular practice and the historical practices of others at: https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/
For early 20th century uses, try: - Kaiser, Julius Otto. 1908. Card System at the Office. London: Vacher and Sons. http://archive.org/details/cardsystematoffi00kaisrich. - Kaiser, Julius Otto. 1911. Systematic Indexing. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/systematicindexi00kaisuoft. - Duffield, David Walter, and Various. 1951. Progressive Indexing and Filing. 5th ed. New York, NY: Remington Rand Inc. http://archive.org/details/progressiveindex0000varo.
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Readers can see for themselves the depth of our coverage on gender identity.”
And how many individual readers are going to spend the time and effort to do this analysis. Rhoades Ha knows this and naturally pushes back when a particular reader happens to have done this analysis.
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Love that Marcotte makes the connection between Trump, the reflecting pool, and Narcissus.
If Trump spent even half the time on homelessness, poverty, or education as he has on this idiotic reflecting pool, America might be marginally better.
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Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug<br /> by [[Beth Mole]] in Ars Technica<br /> accessed on 2026-06-23T21:06:22
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Founded Career Institute and edited several of their books on English, spelling, synonyms, antonyms, etc.
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Did driving across the Reflecting Pool cause the damage Trump is saying was vandalism?!?
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Celebrating Typewriter Day 2026 on a WORKING 1887 Hall (Salem) Typewriter <br /> by Dynamically Typed (aka Joel Berger)<br /> via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1udalhf/comment/otd01ki/
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Apparently he wrote: “If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.” — George Stillman Hillard<br /> source?
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Sticker underneath lid of 3x5" card index (recipe-type) box:
Main section:
"Jogger 'Trade mark'<br /> No. 2<br /> 3 x 5 - closed<br /> Sectionets 'Finger-Tip' Office Systems<br /> Sectionuls Vertical Files of Big Capacity<br /> Sectionups Four Drawer Vertical Letter Files<br /> Shaw-Walker"
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With Shaw-Walker Modern files your work is methodical and systematic; you obtain the best results in the shortest time; they are to your office what modern machinery is to your factory. Ask for our Big Catalog."
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If your old belts are shot, these O-rings from McMaster-Carr are the perfect replacement.
via https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ucvk38/i_pulled_my_old_smith_corona_put_of_the_attic/ <br /> u/pete1885 reports good success with o-rings from McMaster-Carr
Specs: 9452K191 3 3/4 ID; 4" OD; 70A durometer; black
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Portland Stamp Company perforated the typewriter stamps that Lou Spirito designed.
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A 1950s Smith-Corona “Eighty-Eight” Secretarial model, this typewriter was purchased at Byers Office Equipment Co. in Ames.In 1955, Mer Byers established Byers Office Equipment at 126 Main Street in Ames. Art Taylor purchased the company in 1957 and operated it with his son Paul. Around 1963, the business moved to 417 Main Street.By the 1960s, the company offered machine rentals and repair along with new and used models of typewriters, calculators, and adding machines. The showroom also featured office drapery options and furniture. At its peak, Byers Office Equipment Co. served a seven county area with 65% of sales taking place outside of Ames.In 1973, the name changed to Taylor Office Equipment Inc., and operations moved to a new, larger space at 705 East Lincoln Way. The business continued to serve Ames and surrounding area through the early 1990s.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLS_eretU9c/<br /> via Ames Museum
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Tom Hanks' love of typewriters by [[CBS Sunday Morning]] by Lee Cowan
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Northeast Typewriter Exchange is opening 2026-07-18
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Vol. 1, Hidden in Plain Sight: Film Music's 'Dies Irae'
Includes list of Dies Irae appearances in film as well as composer and timestamps in the films.
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Gisela Fieber Obituary - Hemet/San Jacinto, CA<br /> by [[Press Enterprise]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-22T11:45:56
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Arthur Fontaine Obituary (2018) - Riverside, CA - The Press-Enterprise<br /> by [[Legacy]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-22T11:43:09
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Arcade Typewriter Co. Riverside, CA
According to Bob Marshall, Mr. Fontaine owned and operated Arcade Typewriter Co. until around 2014.
@argusc3310 suspects that Gisela Fieber and her husband Fritz may have had a shop prior to that in the area.
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Typewriter Muse Shop Tour<br /> [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Bob Marshall has an assembly line set up in his typewriter repair shop that consists of four people: - Bob: intake/quotes/repair/adjustment/platens - Jonny: front desk, showroom, QC - Grace: wash station, cleaning (alcohol)<br /> - Abraham: Repair/adjustments/oiling; rubberwork, rollers
Machines usually sit for a few days to a week in QC to ensure there are no issues.
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Typewriter Muse is moving through about 12 typewriters per week between repairs and sales.
Bob told me in person that the mix is about 2/3rds repair and 1/3 sales.
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Dies Irae motif in:<br /> Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin<br /> Frozen 2
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[Why this creepy melody is in so many movies}(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3-bVRYRnSM)<br /> on YouTube by Vox
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Dies Irae in motion pictures: <br /> Metropolis (1927)<br /> It's a Wonderful Life (1940)<br /> A Clockwork Orange (1971)<br /> The Omen (1976)<br /> Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)<br /> Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)<br /> The Shining (1980)<br /> The Mission (1986)<br /> Big Trouble in Little China (1986)<br /> Home Alone (1990)<br /> Batman Returns (1992)<br /> Jurassic Park (1993)<br /> The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)<br /> The Lion King (1994)<br /> Mars Attacks (1996)<br /> Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)<br /> Attack of the Clones (2002)<br /> Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)<br /> The Ring (2002)<br /> Indiana Jones 4: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)<br /> Wreck it Ralph (2012)<br /> Iron Man 3 (2013)<br /> Game of Thrones S5 E1 (2015) Crimson Peak (2015)<br /> 10 Cloverfield Lane (2015)<br /> Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)<br /> Colossal (2016)<br /> Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) <br /> The Good Place S1, E11 (2017)<br /> Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
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LIVE: Joe Van Cleave at Typewriter Muse
Attended in person 2026-06-13 at Typewriter Muse in Riverside, CA
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Miss Lemon from Poirot doing her thing on a similar machine.
via https://www.classictypewriter.com/underwood-no-5-desktop
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It's Steven Budden, Jr. out of North Carolina who has been in the space for several years. I suspect that his prices are higher than most because it looks like he's offering a higher level of (bespoke) service than the blow and go C/O/A that many repair shops are offering in the $350-550 range. It looks more like he's doing actual restorations rather than simpler refurbishments with a clean, oil, and adjust. Prior to buying, I'd want to have a direct conversation about what level of service he's offering to these machines? Is it a full restoration? Or just refurbishing with all new rubber? The metal work and brights on his machines seem to indicate he's doing way more work than one typically sees in the overall space. (See: https://typecast.munk.org/2023/04/24/how-to-properly-describe-the-condition-of-a-typewriter/)
I'm vaguely concerned that he's not got himself listed on Polt's repair list at https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html, but as he looks like he's mostly doing higher end custom work, he may be trying to avoid the drive by day-to-day repair work and ribbon swaps that is the bread and butter of most shops. His socials seem to indicate this is a side job and he has another career(s).
If you're concerned, call him up and see what's going on beyond the website. You can also comparison shop using Richard Polt's repair list as well.
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Neil Howe says the 4th turning is here. What does that mean for America in a moment of crisis?<br /> by [[Peter O'Dowd]] for [[NPR]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-08T15:42:14
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Trump has one chance to save face: Resign now<br /> by [[Brian Karem]] in Salon<br /> accessed on 2026-06-19T17:19:03
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Utterly Absurd Contractor Behind Reflecting Pool Renovation Disaster<br /> by [[Rachel Kahn]] in The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-19T13:06:37
It was so important for Trump to have the reflecting pool be blue that they stupidly hired "Greenwater Services" with a no-bid contract.
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2 page Typewritten letter from Will Hays to Warren Doan on July 10, 1926, on the letterhead of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.
Aphorism? included in the letter: <br /> "Liberty is fire on the hearth -- License is fire on the floor."
Interesting how he frames duty and morality as well as responsibility, but appears to be protecting the business versus using film as an art form to create discussion...
Evidence of plays featuring nudity in the mid-1920s while Hollywood endeavored not to show any nudity at all.
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Is JD Vance stealing his book titles from bell hooks?<br /> by [[Brittany Allen]] in Literary Hub on April 3, 2026<br /> accessed on 2026-06-18T10:39:03
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What JD Vance really believes in his new Catholic conversion memoir Communion<br /> by [[Christian Paz]] in Vox<br /> accessed on 2026-06-18T10:09:24
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Trump Calls Obama a “Son of a B*tch” After Disastrous Iran Deal Leaked<br /> by [[Edith Olmsted]] in The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-18T09:16:08
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Angry and Rattled, Trump’s Fox Allies Blurt It Out on Live TV: He Lost<br /> by The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent on The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-18T09:13:10
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THE HUMOURS OF WHISKEY<br /> by [[Marc Gunn]], Celtic Bard accessed on 2026-06-17T11:52:28
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Trump disputes $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran<br /> by [[Elliott Davis]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-15T22:22:29
Trump administration can't get their story straight
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JD Vance Confirms Iran Will Get Jaw-Dropping Sum Under Trump Deal<br /> by [[Hafiz Rashid]] | The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-15T22:20:13
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Vance’s admission contradicts what he said on Friday, when he claimed in an X post that Iran would not be “receiving any cash, and no funds are being released simply for signing a deal or attending a meeting.” In addition to the U.S. and its allies paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S. has agreed to release $25 billion in frozen Iranian assets.
So somehow this (on top of all the losses and multiple billions in costs of the war and economic problems) is better than the Obama nuclear deal? WTF?
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Conservatives, including Trump and Vance, have long criticized the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal, which involved the U.S. lifting sanctions and sending Iran $1.7 billion to settle decades-old failed contracts between the two countries. That deal was also succeeding, with international observers stating that Iran was adhering to all its nuclear terms. It was Trump who decided to break it in his first term and then start a war with Iran in his second.
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Secret Memo Exposes Trump Team’s Debate on Suspending Constitution<br /> by [[Hafiz Rashid]] | The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-15T22:08:12
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America has lost its war with Iran<br /> by [[Editorial]] | The Independent<br /> accessed on 2026-06-15T22:04:21
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250. Tackling ‘Big History’ feat. Ian Morris<br /> unSILOed Podcast with Greg LaBlanc
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Ranganathan, S. R. 1931. The Five Laws of Library Science. 1st ed. Madras, London: The Madras Library Association; E. Goldston. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001661182 (June 15, 2026).
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Should I drop $99 on student discounted access to Final Draft for industry standard formatting?
Why buy into a "system", much less one with recurring costs? Formatting a script is the lowest bar in the space. A third grader could easily do this.
Even a vintage typewriter with a pica typeface will allow you to set margins, a few tabs, and you're on your way. It's the writing that's the tough part. Spend your time and energy on this part where it really belongs. Software isn't going to suddenly add creativity, emotion, or verve to your work. The "industry standard" of unsold and unproduced screenplays is the one you really want to worry about.
Preston Sturges, Billy Wilder, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, William Golding, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Towne, Frank Pierson, and Steve Tesich all have something in common: they won Academy Awards for best original screenplay without using screenplay software. Why couldn't you? Why shouldn't you?!?
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reply to u/someblokeonhere at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1u4ftix/which_typewriter_had_the_best_font/
The vast majority of typewriters were sold with a traditional mono-spaced Courier-like face in either pica or elite pitch (often with incredibly generic names like "Royal Pica" or "Royal Elite". Usually for about $5 (on what was often a $100 purchase which is about $1,000 in today's money), you could custom select an alternate face which was often marketed as a way to make your correspondence more personalized. They tried to make it a selling point, but I suspect it wasn't much of one in actual practice, particularly at that mark up. Many companies sold an "Executive" typeface that was often in italic as a means of differentiating typewriters meant for executives rather than the standard faces secretaries used.
Lots of alternate faces were manufactured for specific purposes like banking, accounting, speechwriting, and schools and those were sold as selling points for those markets. Other related features like keysets and special characters were marketed at pharmacists, doctors, engineers/mathematicians/scientists, and libraries.
If you create an account on the typewriter database you'll see options in the main menu for downloading full versions of a variety of typographical catalogs. Ted Munk also has (lesser) photo scans of some of these on his blog.
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For the Sears Holiday Petite Child’s toy typewriter. Spools are 4cm in diameter, and 1 cm width. Uses a fabric 0.6mm ribbon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1u4gbul/its_working/
I suspect they meant 6mm width on the fabric ribbon?
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To create an account on the typewriter database, visit https://typewriterdatabase.com/register-today.php (Ted Munk manually approves new accounts within a day or two.)
Joe Van Cleave has a good intro video on using the database: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K5m1W7KNW8
And you'll find some notes on photos for the TWdB here: https://boffosocko.com/2024/10/24/photos-of-typewriters-for-the-typewriter-database/
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Ben Kingsley used a Continental typewriter in Schindler's List. It's housed at the Amblin Film Archive.
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- Kirk Jackson of Nashville Typewriter: u/NashvilleTypewriter
- Scott Connnors of Stephentown Typewriter: u/scottconnors #
- Typewriter Justice of Keller, TX: u/TypewriterJustice
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Opinion - A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.<br /> by [[Ross Douthat]], [[Victoria Chamberlin]], [[jennSophia Alvarez Boyd]] - The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-06-11T16:57:08
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What I remind them of, in very clear terms, is that if they outsource their thinking, they’re simply outsourcing their own humanity.
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So, I think I’ll worry more about A.I. when it can index my book.
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Students have no sense that their education is anything other than this externalized instrumental means to an end. We have to look at how to recover that first.
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The civic center movement is a relatively new movement.
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Let us remember that it was the Obama administration that rolled out the scorecard of majors. So this kind of utilitarian push is, I believe, bipartisan.
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studiousness, which has nothing to do with hitting the books. “Studiositas” is sort of like cultivated attention, like training that desire to know so that it’s focused on the good stuff as opposed to looking at TikTok for five hours a day.
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And we forget that the Greek word, the root for “school,” is leisure.But leisure is not idleness or amusement. And it’s definitely not just resting up so you can get back to work. It is that space that we need to set aside to cultivate the highest parts of us.
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But I think there’s a remarkable kind of red thread running through all of that, which is this idea that there is something really essential and important, not just to individuals, but to culture and society, in having something that is more than an education that we would call professional, and that they would call servile.
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let’s just take Great Books education for example. You find Great Books education in community colleges. You find Great Books education, still, completely outside of institutions of higher education. You find Great Books education in certain high schools.I think these things don’t necessarily have to be luxury goods. And I think it’s a choice that we make, politically, to say that they are. We can debate that choice, but that’s just a choice that we have.
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If you’re going to read a Dan Brown novel, it’s very difficult to imagine having sustained conversations about Dan Brown novels over years. It’s quite easy to imagine doing that with Shakespeare. I do that. It’s just so rich.And so I think we should not shy away from saying that. There is a kind of depth in great art that demands our attention in a way that is absent in Dan Brown.
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that cultivating the life of the mind is a basic human need.
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but it’s really striking to read about the role that the liberal arts played in these large-scale working class communities in the past.
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Douthat: But then isn’t there an argument, a critique of the humanities, that says that intellectual mentality and the eugenic mentality could fit together pretty naturally? It’s like: OK, to be human is to appreciate Bach and Plato, and only our smartest university students do that, so only they’re fully human — and so on down the eugenicist argument.
Douthat buys into the idea that you have to be "smart" to appreciate the humanities or the great books.
Didn't Mortimer J. Adler spend a large chunk of his life trying to convince "everyman" that they could appreciate Plato and Aristotle?
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When you look at a culture, and you want to ask yourself: “Well, how did we go from Weimar Germany to Nazism?” Obviously, education is going to be a part of that, but it’s not in any way going to be the whole of it.
One of the same front, Catholics seem to be big in America behind the Great Books and classical education, yet also seem to be a large group of conservatives behind MAGA/Trumpism.
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you also have to recognize that there is an ineliminable element of human freedom in education.
Nazis despite a humanistic education....
Is the link that Douthat a real one?
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The Greeks would call it paideia. The Germans would call it Bildung. I might just call it liberal education or liberal learning, but it’s all the same sort of thing. It’s about what is it to contribute to and live in a flourishing human society?
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I share your view that the purported death of literacy is a tragedy.
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An Archive of a Different Type<br /> by [[Jason Scott]] on Internet Archive Blogs accessed on 2026-06-11T10:58:48
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Ron's Typewriter - YouTube<br /> by [[Parks and Recreation]] <br /> accessed on 2025-10-06T22:09:41
Parks and Recreation S3, E5 "Media Blitz" aired 2011-02-17<br /> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636241/
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reply to u/Beloved-21 at https://old.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1u2bw2s/index_cards_vs_digital_note_app/
There are a handful of affordances you get with paper over digital.
- Most in the space of embodied cognition would indicate that you will have better retention by writing things down physically versus typing them out.
- studies indicate that the presence of screens/phones reduces the level and quality of the conversation in the room, even when the device is sitting on the table nearby
- people react more at ease with paper note taking, especially in interviews where they tend to be more guarded if you're recording everything
- The act of filing your notes forces you to engage with them multiple times. It's not just re-reading the current note to decide where to place it, but re-reading older notes to decide where the current one fits in. This gives you the benefits of spaced repetition as well as encountering the value of serendipity, synergy, and syzygy
- you're forced to be more concise and selective about what you capture versus digital where it's easier to be a hoarder of material you don't "own" or even understand.
- index cards are just as easy to carry in your pockets as any other device
- physical cards are easier to layout, arrange, and re-arrange in various orders than any of the clunky methods for doing this in the digital space where solid user interface for this sort of affordance is almost entirely lacking.
- paper forces you to slow down and engage with notes in ways that digital notes typically don't
- physical cards actually "get in your way" in a sense while digital cards are always "hidden"
I'm sure you'll find various others hiding in a digital version of my notes: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3A%22note+taking+affordances%22
The real question at the end of the day is what works best for you?!? Try them both out for a few weeks or a month or more and chose the version that works best for your modes of thinking. Experimenting is the only way to answer this question for yourself. You may find other affordances that don't apply to others' work.
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Olivetti type styles from the 1964 NOMDA Blue Book<br /> - Olivetti Bulletin (5 pitch, 3 lines/inch)<br /> - Olivetti Giant Primer (alternate) (5 pitch)<br /> - Olivetti Comet (10 pitch)<br /> - Olivetti Distinctive Pica<br /> - Olivetti Distinctive Pica Heavy Face<br /> - Olivetti Elite Gothic Heavy Face (10 pitch)<br /> - Olivetti Elite Correspondence Gothic (10 pitch)<br /> - Olivetti Esquire (10 pitch, 5.4 lines/inch)<br /> - Olivetti Pica Gothic Shiftless Alphabet<br /> - Olivetti Pica Victoria<br /> - Olivetti Stymie<br /> - Olivetti Wide Elite Victoria (10 pitch, 5.4 lines/inch)<br /> - Olivetti Distinctive Elite<br /> - Olivetti Distinctive Elite Heavy Face<br /> - Olivetti Elite Stymie<br /> - Olivetti Elite Italic<br /> - Olivetti Elite Stymie Heavy Face<br /> - Olivetti Stymie Heavy Face<br /> - Olivetti Stymie Gothic<br /> - Olivetti Universal Pica<br /> - Olivetti Monza (10 pitch), script<br /> - Olivetti Esteem Pica<br /> - Olivetti Pica Gothic<br /> - Olivetti Elite Victoria<br /> - Olivetti Esteem Elite<br /> - Olivetti Financial Gothic<br /> - Olivetti Financial Gothic Heavy Face<br /> - Olivetti San Serif Elite<br /> - Olivetti Universal Elite #468
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The Elite 3 is the exact same machine as your Super. Just not the other Optima Super which is an Erika 10 rebrand.
via u/BlindAssassin111 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1u19nbi/1960_optima_super/
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Robert Caro Reveals Details of His Final Lyndon Johnson Biography<br /> C-SPAN's Book TV
Caro outlines the entirety of his book before he starts writing. He puts his outline onto paper which he tacks up onto cork boards across his office wall.
Caro writes everything in longhand first then types/revised it on his Smith-Corona Electra 210.
Caro only gave Gottlieb a piece of his LBJ bio draft when he ran out of money and needed an advance. Otherwise, he doesn't give his editor material until he's done.
Caro lives on the corner in Central Park West
Caro was on the 22nd floor (of 29) at 250 W. 57th Street for 22 years and wrote 3 books in a one room office. Joseph Heller had an office there as well.
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via https://www.reddit.com/r/Typewriter_parts/comments/1t1y9a2/royal_futura_800_case_handles/<br /> Originally offered on May 2, 2026
The plastic handles on Royal Futura Cases are almost always broken and/or missing. TB Writers Plus began offering a plastic replacement handle in May 2026 for $35.00.
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Nithya Raman Overtakes Spencer Pratt in Race for L.A. Mayor<br /> by [[Shawn Hubler]] The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-06-07T22:50:31
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reply to u/Away-Lavishness-4853 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1tykizl/which_platens_are_interchangeable/ Which platens are interchangeable?
You're really asking either the wrong question or a moot one.
Platens are generally good for about 24-40 years and then need to be recovered. Some machines had exchangeable platens for office use to have different levels of hardness for specific uses, but finding a machine with an extra these days is pretty much non-existent.
For most people if you had a parts machine for which you could "swap" a platen out you'd have to search far and wide for someone who may have gotten a recovered one in the late 80s or maybe early 90s to hope for something passable. Then there's the cost of buying and potentially shipping that machine. I've collected over 70 machines and only one of them had a platen that I would even consider "passable".
Ultimately for $90-150 to recover your platen via J. J. Short, it's much cheaper to just get your platen done and have something that'll last you a few decades.
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giving the keys a rinse cycle with a water and rubbing alcohol mixture. Did not anticipate the keys melting, but dish soap didnt do much.
Someone destroyed their plastic keys by soaking them in a water/rubbing alcohol mixture.
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Tom Hanks visited 90-year-old Berkeley Typewriter on Thursday<br /> by [[Kasia Pawlowska]] for San Francisco Gate<br /> accessed on 2026-06-05T16:30:33
“He tried pretty much everything in the store here, and actually walked away with a 1930s Royal standard typewriter,” Alexander said. “He really liked the touch on it.”
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reply to u/Solid-Theme-6653 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1txfdst/is_this_lc_smith_typewriter_the_real_deal/
Rebuilt was a legal term back in the day to mean that a typewriter's condition was equivalent to that of a brand new machine: https://typecast.munk.org/2023/04/24/how-to-properly-describe-the-condition-of-a-typewriter/
Typewriters from that era will have wildly different conditions, and often be in very poor condition. https://boffosocko.com/2026/01/08/on-purchasing-typewriters-condition-is-king-context-is-queen/ Usually they start in the $20 range and often, but not always top, out in the $500 range. With only the pictures to compare these, I might place the first at $25 and the second at $120. (Putting my hands on the machine and inspecting it would obviously dramatically change my evaluation.)
Pretty much no one rebuilds machines anymore, they either service and/or refurbish them (relatively inexpensive $200-400) or they restore them ($500-2000+). I could imagine a well restored version of one of these machines selling for over $2,000, but it would have to be truly stunning and this would be tremendously rare.
More examples to look at and compare: https://typewriterdatabase.com/L.C.+Smith.8.143.bmys
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@tomp your experience of finding the book binding text while searching for something entirely else is often called "serendipity". The way books are shelved in libraries helps to increase the chance that even if you don't find the thing you're looking for, along the way you might find other things of potential interest. Modern digital search often decreases this effect which was more common in the analog spaces of card catalogs and library books on shelves.
This experience is some of the unseen or elusive "magic" that Luhmann was referencing in his card “Geist im Kasten?” ZKII 9/8,3. You have to have the experience of searching for things and either finding or not finding them and running into entirely different ideas along the way to appreciate this sort of serendipity which is facilitated by physical zettelkasten practice. Otherwise it all seems very mundane. It's hard to see or demonstrate serendipity, and so people only see the papers and boxes and leave disappointed.
See also:<br /> - https://boffosocko.com/2022/10/22/the-two-definitions-of-zettelkasten/#Does%20Spirit%20hide<br /> - https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/2408/on-note-9-8-3-ghost-in-the-box
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