196X Atlas (Nippo) Portable #605142
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jobers Bersales (Pinoytype)
Created: 09-20-2023 at 08:03PM
Last Edit: 09-20-2023 at 08:07PM
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Description:
The product brochure (in Japanese) which accompanies this typewriter states that this was a product of research since 1935. This 4.5-kg typewriter was produced by the International Business Machine Industry Co. Ltd. in Omori, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. No date is stated as to when exactly this came out of the factory floor, however. This particular one has a problem with its carriage, when typing, the paper begins to move at an angle,as seen in the typeface sample.
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Hunter: Jobers Bersales (Pinoytype)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 3600
I'm an archaeologist who writes heritage books and collects Japanese ceramics as well as quite a number of typewriters that I've acquired through purchase or as gifts over the last 10 years in the Philippines as well as in the US and Japan.
I'm currently a visiting professor at a university in Japan and it is heaven here to see so many typewriters being auctioned online!
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