1887 Crandall New Model #6059
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Martin Howard (MartinHoward)
Created: 06-09-2017 at 11:23AM
Last Edit: 11-07-2020 at 01:42PM
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Description:
The Crandall New Model has a wonderful curved and ornate Victorian design that is lavishly decorated with hand painted roses, accented with mother-of-pearl.
This was the first typewriter (first appearing on the Crandall 1 of 1883) to use a single type-element (no type bars) -- well before IBM's Selectric typewriter of 1961 with its ‘Golf ball’ spherical type-element. Like the Selectric, the Crandall’s cylindrical type-element could easily be changed to type with a different font style.
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Hunter: Martin Howard (MartinHoward)
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I am a collector of 19th century typewriters and have built a collection that shows the remarkable ingenuity and beauty of the world's first typewriters. I have always been interested in the beginnings of a machine when there is an eruption of approaches to making it. Early typewriters are an exceptional example of this incubation period.
My collection can be seen at antiquetypewriters.com
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