A blog about all kinds of vintage technology from simple mechanisms of the late 1800s through electronics and robotics of the 1980s. Many posts will be typecast and some will be off topic bits from everyday life. The blog will wander and meander with my quasi-evolving and ever changing interests.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Funky Script of the Day
A new typewriter arrived yesterday and is currently on the bench for cleaning and adjustment. Would anyone care to guess the make and model? Anyone? Anyone?
Captured with a Fuji X-T1 + Pentax Macro Takumar 50mm f4 + Baveyes focal booster. Out of camera JPG
You deserve credit for a really good and fast guess. The Smith-Corona is high up on the seldom seen script face list. Example in last entry: http://vintagetechobsessions.blogspot.com/2014/11/greetings-from-zombie-blog-and-parker.html This one is even stranger and more obscure. I only know of one Typospherian who has a sample.
Royal was great about making some really interesting/bizarre type styles. Unfortunately, this is not one of them. P.S. I still need to get registration on your amazing Typewriter Database figured out. I'll probably just do a new one. The only problem is that I have not been systematic in saving typewriter images. This blog is the main unifying location.
Not a bad guess. The lower case is almost generic European style. However, the upper case is definitely not. Hermes had the generic - one example: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kw2UqhdJtMc/TnvjsD1ehYI/AAAAAAAAAG0/jzOrFPJmjoo/s1600/070.JPG
I've seen it, or at least a very close likeness, on Smith-Corona typewriters. The dollar sign though closely resembles one on one of my Underwoods. The only one in my collection that is script+dollar sign+Pounds-Sterling is my Hammond.
Oooh ... a Smith-Corona maybe?
ReplyDeleteYou deserve credit for a really good and fast guess. The Smith-Corona is high up on the seldom seen script face list. Example in last entry: http://vintagetechobsessions.blogspot.com/2014/11/greetings-from-zombie-blog-and-parker.html
DeleteThis one is even stranger and more obscure. I only know of one Typospherian who has a sample.
Fancy Schmancy! I'm going to take a SWAG and say an Underwood portable.
ReplyDeleteYour SWAG is awesome! A very good - and very close - guess on the brand of this machine.
DeleteSince nobody's picked Royal QDL, I'll go for that. :D
ReplyDeleteRoyal was great about making some really interesting/bizarre type styles. Unfortunately, this is not one of them. P.S. I still need to get registration on your amazing Typewriter Database figured out. I'll probably just do a new one. The only problem is that I have not been systematic in saving typewriter images. This blog is the main unifying location.
DeleteThe pound sign is making me curious—I know this script was offered on many different typewriters, European or American. I'll guess an Erika.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad guess. The lower case is almost generic European style. However, the upper case is definitely not. Hermes had the generic - one example: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kw2UqhdJtMc/TnvjsD1ehYI/AAAAAAAAAG0/jzOrFPJmjoo/s1600/070.JPG
DeleteI've seen it, or at least a very close likeness, on Smith-Corona typewriters. The dollar sign though closely resembles one on one of my Underwoods. The only one in my collection that is script+dollar sign+Pounds-Sterling is my Hammond.
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