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Monday, April 17, 2017

Colourful Columbia

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Playing music from a stack of records from the early thirties... Quite a few American records were in there that somehow found their way a...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Safari sightings

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In the few local thrift shops, there hardly ever are typewriters. Maybe they're gone quickly, or just not brought in that often. This ti...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Boxes - archeologists tools

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Unexpectedly, two typewriter shipping cases turned up in a small local archeology museum . Hadn't expected anything this modern there. T...
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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Magnification table and butterfly wing scale dimensions

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As far as I can tell Bausch & Lomb didn't include a magnification table inside the lid of their microscope cases . This was common ...
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Friday, January 20, 2017

Principal Operating Parts of the Remington Noiseless Portable typewriter

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Have had a Remington Noiseless Portable typewriter for a while now. Given the age of such machines when acquired second-hand, not surprising...
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Monday, January 9, 2017

Moteur à ressort

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An instruction leaflet for the Meccano motor number 2 (reversing). The address in Paris was the French factory at that time. This  gran...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

Spanning almost a century with spoked wheels

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Loosely based on a model in the instruction manual, a small motorcar built from early nickel parts. Ribbon added by the kids; it's ...
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