1912 Ideal A4 #90790
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Alfred Kaltenecker (alfredklt)
Created: 05-01-2018 at 11:33PM
Last Edit: 08-16-2024 at 08:50AM
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Description:
First 4-row "frontstrike visible" typewriter produced in Germany.
It has an 11 mm (7/16') ribbon, also according to
"Liste der Herstellungsdaten gangbarer Schreibmaschinen - 1941 Edition" (see age lists in library) although in the age list the narrow ribbon should have been replaced earlier at a lower serial number...
This model is equipped with a spaced type lever on the front (the typeface specimen has spaced type setting).
Typeface Specimen:
Photos:
Hunter: Alfred Kaltenecker (alfredklt)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 880
Collector with typewriter virus living in Austria. Fourty years ago typewriters were only standard office equipment for me. I was really glad to get my first but simple word processors in the early Eighties with delete, copy/paste and whatever wonderful functions. This fascination is over. Now I have returned to real mechanics.
Check also: https://typewheeler.blogspot.com
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