Miscellaneous Related Items
Despite what you may think by looking at this site, typewriters aren't our lives (well, it's close!). We collect a few other sorts of things as well- some related to typewriters and some not-so-related. There are links to these below.
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Here's a story (click here) written about us and collecting typewriters that appeared on 11/19/98 at Yesterday's Office's website; hope you like it! While you're there, check out some stories there about some of our collector friends too (see their links below)!
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WHATZIT??? It's a knee operated shift device! Click here to see it on the machine. Patented December 1, 1885 by C. S. Southworth of Connecticut. It was intended for use on the Remington Standard Typewriter to facilitate the shift action while typing for those who were "maimed or blind" and deemed "unnecessary to those who have full use of their eyes and hands, although some prefer to adopt it". Here's one collectors take on it (click).
WHATZIT #2 It's a copy holder, but intended for hand-written copying! Click here to see it set up. It was patented in May of 1873. From the patent papers: "Our invention consists of a little desk, table or board supported in any way in an oblique position suitably for reading 'copy' conveniently from it...". Notably, the papers mention the holder being used "to avoid all the difficulty now experienced by copyists in returning the eyes from the paper being written to the right place in the copy".
WHATZIT #3 (actual size is aprox 3" wide) It's an unformed type sleeve for a Crandall Typewriter! These were produced on flat stock and 'rolled' into the familiar cylinder shape. This super piece came from the grandson of a former Crandall Typewriter Co employee.
links to other typewriter sites
