OLYMPIA FILIA
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1934
Nice rare German Olympia Filia typewriter.
Gloss black typewriter with black solid keys.
I bought it in Paris, vide-grenier, last November 2012 (20€)
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Vintage Typewriter
Nice rare German Olympia Filia typewriter.
Gloss black typewriter with black solid keys.
I bought it in Paris, vide-grenier, last November 2012 (20€)
Links:
Vintage Typewriter
TRIUMPH ADLER TIPPA
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c. 1960-1970s
Triumph Adler Tippa Portable Manual Typewriter.
Specifications:
Triumph Adler Tippa Portable Manual Typewriter.
Specifications:
- Type: Portable Manual Typewriter
- Colour: white
- Case: black colour, made in Western Germany.
- Maker: Triumph Adler Organisation
- Original Plate: T - A Organisation MADE IN HOLLAND
- Dimensions: 12" by 12"
- Weight: 5 kg
- Bought in Vietnam, 2011
UNDERWOOD No. 5
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1907
Franz X. Wagner and his brother patented a front-stroke typewriter in 1894 that later became known as the Underwood when John Underwood bought the company. While the machine wasn't the first front-stroke typewriter, it became the most successful design that dominated the industry in its day.
The No. 5 was the quintessential Underwood. Millions of these machines were used by secretaries, journalists, government officials, and writers throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Later Underwood were superficially modernized, but retained the same basic mechanism. The name "No. 5" was even given to some of these later typewriters, in honor of the model that made the company's fortune.
The company was founded in New York City in 1895.
Franz X. Wagner created the first Underwood typewriter for entrepreneur John Thomas Underwood, who founded the Underwood Typewriter Company on the back of Wagner’s designs.
The company produced the Underwood No.1 and Underwood No.2 between 1896 and 1900.
The firm merged with Olivetti in 1963 and the Underwood name quickly disappeared from the company’s typewriters, last appearing in Spain in the mid-1980’s.
Specifications:
Bought in Paris, November 2011.
Links:
Serial number
UNDERWOOD no. 5
Underwood 5 typewriter
No. 5
Franz X. Wagner and his brother patented a front-stroke typewriter in 1894 that later became known as the Underwood when John Underwood bought the company. While the machine wasn't the first front-stroke typewriter, it became the most successful design that dominated the industry in its day.
The No. 5 was the quintessential Underwood. Millions of these machines were used by secretaries, journalists, government officials, and writers throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Later Underwood were superficially modernized, but retained the same basic mechanism. The name "No. 5" was even given to some of these later typewriters, in honor of the model that made the company's fortune.
The company was founded in New York City in 1895.
Franz X. Wagner created the first Underwood typewriter for entrepreneur John Thomas Underwood, who founded the Underwood Typewriter Company on the back of Wagner’s designs.
The company produced the Underwood No.1 and Underwood No.2 between 1896 and 1900.
The firm merged with Olivetti in 1963 and the Underwood name quickly disappeared from the company’s typewriters, last appearing in Spain in the mid-1980’s.
Specifications:
- Year of production: 1907
Serial number: 151505
Company: Underwood Typewriter Company, New York, USA
Type: frontstrike, four bank of keys.
The
Bought in Paris, November 2011.
Links:
Serial number
UNDERWOOD no. 5
Underwood 5 typewriter
No. 5
JAPY P68
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1953
Specifications:
The Japy company was founded in 1771 by George Frédéric Japy (1749-1812), a pioneer in the industrial production of watches. Frédéric Japy was educated in Beaucourt and Montbéliard and from 1768 learned watchmaking in Le Locle, now a part of Switzerland.
Japy died at his mill in Badevel in January 23, 1812. The main street of Beaucourt now bears his name and a museum, which includes Japy typewriters, is dedicated to him. Musée Municipal Japy, is at 16 Rue Frédéric Japy. Before he died, Japy had handed over the running of his company to his sons, and it became known as Établissements Japy Frères, S.A..
In 1910, as part of a broad diversification, Japy Frères started making typewriters. It bought the entire assets of the Remington-Sholes Typewriter Co, which had gone bankrupt in 1909, and with Remington-Sholes tooling and dies reproduced the American company’s visible standard machine as the Japy 3X. The parts were made in Beaucourt and assembled at Arcueil, outside Paris.
In 1931 the first Japy portable, the Japy V, was produced. This was not a success and Japy quickly acquired a license to manufacture beautiful Patria typewriters, from the Swiss Perles company, as the Japy model P6, which was produced from 1937 to 1948. It was mechanically a Patria but with a unique and utterly gorgeous Japy casing.
After World War II, Japy also began making typewriters under licence from another Swiss company, Hermès Paillard, and in 1971 Hermès took over Japy, moving production of such Hermes-designed Beaucourt models as the Message and the Gazelle to Switzerland. In turn, Hermes was taken over by Olivetti.
In 1954 the typewriter branch of Japy Frères become the Société de Mécanographie Japy. From 1949 to 1959 Japy made a second Patria design, one which came from Max Bill (1908–1994), the famous Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. This was called the P68 or Japy Personnelle.
Links:
Japy typewriter database
Specifications:
- Japy P68 portable typewriter (or Japy Personnelle)
- Production from 1949 to 1959.
- s/n 178203 (1953)
- Made in France by Société de Mécanographie Japy at its Beaucourt factory.
- Keyboard French AZERTY
- Bought in Vietnam, December 2012. ($US 30)
The Japy company was founded in 1771 by George Frédéric Japy (1749-1812), a pioneer in the industrial production of watches. Frédéric Japy was educated in Beaucourt and Montbéliard and from 1768 learned watchmaking in Le Locle, now a part of Switzerland.
Japy died at his mill in Badevel in January 23, 1812. The main street of Beaucourt now bears his name and a museum, which includes Japy typewriters, is dedicated to him. Musée Municipal Japy, is at 16 Rue Frédéric Japy. Before he died, Japy had handed over the running of his company to his sons, and it became known as Établissements Japy Frères, S.A..
In 1910, as part of a broad diversification, Japy Frères started making typewriters. It bought the entire assets of the Remington-Sholes Typewriter Co, which had gone bankrupt in 1909, and with Remington-Sholes tooling and dies reproduced the American company’s visible standard machine as the Japy 3X. The parts were made in Beaucourt and assembled at Arcueil, outside Paris.
In 1931 the first Japy portable, the Japy V, was produced. This was not a success and Japy quickly acquired a license to manufacture beautiful Patria typewriters, from the Swiss Perles company, as the Japy model P6, which was produced from 1937 to 1948. It was mechanically a Patria but with a unique and utterly gorgeous Japy casing.
After World War II, Japy also began making typewriters under licence from another Swiss company, Hermès Paillard, and in 1971 Hermès took over Japy, moving production of such Hermes-designed Beaucourt models as the Message and the Gazelle to Switzerland. In turn, Hermes was taken over by Olivetti.
In 1954 the typewriter branch of Japy Frères become the Société de Mécanographie Japy. From 1949 to 1959 Japy made a second Patria design, one which came from Max Bill (1908–1994), the famous Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. This was called the P68 or Japy Personnelle.
Links:
Japy typewriter database