Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Ribbontop's-a- gobo


Bobbin lid, reel shield, spool cowl ...ink-cap? Take your pick.

Here's all that's left of the branding on the Underwood Portable Typewriter. I'll try to polish some of those abrasion marks but steel's so much harder than alloy. Getting there...

Wednesday 2 March 2011

Getting there

Blick Universal under the spotlight

Only half a dozen or so more machines to photograph and upload:
  • Corona Junior
  • Corona 3
  • Antares Parva (from 1960s Italy)
  • Underwood 4-bank in hnd painted brown (yuk)
  • Remington Home Portable
  • Remington Rand Model 1
  • Remington Portable Model 5 (streamline)
  • Imperial Good Companion (from Leicester)
  • Corona 4 (the organ donor)