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1919 Erika 2 Serial # 38169 1919 Erika 2 typewriter, Serial # 38169 Photis Pascali's 1919 Erika 2 typewriter. 2025-12-13 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Photis Pascali: 1919 Erika 2 Serial # 38169 Regular Black Finish - German QWERTZ - 38169 - Fraktur Typeface

Bought from an online auction for $50 in England. Unfortunately, this machine is caked in rust, but the good news is that a majority of it is surface rust. I have already removed some of the rust from the machine. The carriage will need a new draw band string since the old one snapped, and the typewriter overall will need some good servicing. The case is in really poor shape as well; it's crumbling day by day, so that needs to be replaced soon. Some slugs are frozen shut because of the rust, so I wasn't able to use them, as you will see in the typeface specimen. The plastic ring around the eszett key also cracked and is missing a chunk. Also, the backspace key is the only key in the entire keyboard of this machine that isn't in the Fraktur style lettering, which is a bummer.

The slugs themselves are RaRo (Ransmayer & Rodrian) 42 slugs, which is pretty cool. Another neat feature, which I haven't seen on any other Fraktur folding Erikas, other than an example of an Erika 3, is that the key indexes are also in Fraktur. This can be really neat and really confusing at the same time, depending on how you view it. Another unique feature to note is that the letters Q, Y, X, and C are all symbols on this machine, and each uppercase and lowercase for each character is on a seperate key, prompting you to press the "Zeichen" (or sign/symbol) key on the machine instead of them being traditionally placed in the regular lowercase/uppercase format. The machine came from a firm in Dresden, Germany, called M & R (Max & Rudolph) Zocher, which initially started as a bookshop and stationery store in Dresden in the 1880s. They also operated a mechanized book printing shop and bookbindery on the premises, and later in 1926, the business grew into larger facilities throughout the area.

I plan to get this machine restored sooner or later to full working condition, but it's a really cool three-bank machine, and I just adore it.

1919 Erika 2 #38169

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Photis Pascali (TheGreekTypewriterFreak)
Created: 12-13-2025 at 12:13PM
Last Edit: 12-13-2025 at 12:37PM

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Regular Black Finish - German QWERTZ - 38169 - Fraktur Typeface

Bought from an online auction for $50 in England. Unfortunately, this machine is caked in rust, but the good news is that a majority of it is surface rust. I have already removed some of the rust from the machine. The carriage will need a new draw band string since the old one snapped, and the typewriter overall will need some good servicing. The case is in really poor shape as well; it's crumbling day by day, so that needs to be replaced soon. Some slugs are frozen shut because of the rust, so I wasn't able to use them, as you will see in the typeface specimen. The plastic ring around the eszett key also cracked and is missing a chunk. Also, the backspace key is the only key in the entire keyboard of this machine that isn't in the Fraktur style lettering, which is a bummer.

The slugs themselves are RaRo (Ransmayer & Rodrian) 42 slugs, which is pretty cool. Another neat feature, which I haven't seen on any other Fraktur folding Erikas, other than an example of an Erika 3, is that the key indexes are also in Fraktur. This can be really neat and really confusing at the same time, depending on how you view it. Another unique feature to note is that the letters Q, Y, X, and C are all symbols on this machine, and each uppercase and lowercase for each character is on a seperate key, prompting you to press the "Zeichen" (or sign/symbol) key on the machine instead of them being traditionally placed in the regular lowercase/uppercase format. The machine came from a firm in Dresden, Germany, called M & R (Max & Rudolph) Zocher, which initially started as a bookshop and stationery store in Dresden in the 1880s. They also operated a mechanized book printing shop and bookbindery on the premises, and later in 1926, the business grew into larger facilities throughout the area.

I plan to get this machine restored sooner or later to full working condition, but it's a really cool three-bank machine, and I just adore it.

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