This morning's visit to the local thrift store, shiny chrome and gloss black amongst the bric-a-brac!
Viewing a bit closer, a Continental Standard in very nice condition - with an extra carriage attachment. Probably for typing cards?
With a QWERTZ keyboard and in French 'MAJUSCULES' on the shift keys.
Its origin is clear from the dealer label; this machine was sold in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Patents on the back (missing / screw-holes for optional tabulator parts?).
Its serial number 477466 dates this Continental to 1931.
Over irs 95 years it travelled from Chemnitz via Lausanne all the way over to Friesland, now for sale on a table in a local thrift store - and recorded for The Database too :)
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