I know someone who has a typewriter collection. By this I don’t mean he has a couple typewriters. He has lots of typewriters. And he has amazing typewriters. And he displays them. And they are indeed wonderful. They are purely mechanical and as far as I can tell they all still work, with some being over 100 years old.
| Camera & Lens | Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (Canon) & 24.0-105.0 mm | Shutter: | 1/25 s | |||
| Creation Date: | 2009:04:12 09:07:11 | Aperture: | f/4.0 | |||
| Artist: | Ari Brown | ISO: | 400 | |||
| Exposure Mode: | Normal program | Focal Length: | 105 mm |
Lots of people these days are creating steampunk artifacts – things that look like they are old-timey. Lots of brass and switches and cogs. That’s all well and good, but this is the original steampunk. I love all the intricate metal parts. The spools and reels and keys and whatever else these things are. I don’t know more than what he’s told me and what is written about each. I know that this one is a Royal Standard typewriter from 1906. I know it has some wickedly cool keys with apothecary symbols on them. I don’t know much else, but it doesn’t take much for me to appreciate it. I just love the rows and rows of metal keys.
I hope you like it too, because I’ve got some more pictures, coming up soon.
Tags: apothecary, keys, royalstandard, typewriter
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I really like this. BRASSSS.
Totally – knobs and switches and levers and such. When you’ve got no electronics, you solve problems a whole different way. There are some cool ones that sit on sewing machine tables since it was the only “workstation” setup that really existed up to that point. I wish I could have gotten some of the shots I’d have liked to take, but I had the wrong lens and didn’t want to touch anything more than a hundred years old.