New felt under the Blickensderfer 7 base

The Blickensderfer 7 typewriter is screwed to an oak base-board. On the bottom of this base-board now again a thin sheet of ochre wool-felt.

This new sheet was cut to size from a sheet of 1mm thick wool-felt and glued under the base.  For glue, used a glue-stick ("Pritt"); i.e. mostly starch - so not too historically inappropriate.

It may have been a later modification by the owner, but I suspect this style of case originally had felt. Similar to e.g. the wooden base-boards of a Hammond; Hammonds have green felt, this Blickensderfer had ochre. Perhaps many/most Blickensderfer cases lost their felt over the past century or more; haven't been able to find a lot of online evidence of others with felt. Only one spotted so far, with a dark blue felt on a dark oak case. (The bottom of the base is of course not the most obvious angle to photograph a Blickensderfer typewriter, so that won't help either :)

This particular base still had some remnants of felt attached; these remaining areas perhaps had been re-glued some time in the past with a better glue than the original. The remaining patches were very hard to remove, whereas the rest of the base-board showed no signs of any glue ever having been there. The original glue probably dried-out, lost all adhesive power.

Whatever the case is; these remnants allowed an attempt at color-matching:

Close enough - another small step in the re-furbishing of the Blickensderfer 7. (Does anyone else know of a Blickensderfer case with felt under the base-board? And what colour?)