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192x Bing 2 Serial # NA 192x Bing 2 typewriter, Serial # NA Heather Hjorth's 192x Bing 2 typewriter. 2023-06-19 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Heather Hjorth: 192x Bing 2 Serial # NA The Bing is somewhere between a toy and a real writing tool. The platen is too small to take a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. I love the feel of the funky aluminium keys! Additional cleaning and adjustments are needed to bring this unit back to full function. I threaded on a bit of the tired ribbon that came with this machine to get a type sample.
This typewriter is complete with its metal case where the 'made in Germany' part underneath the logo looks like it was scraped off (perhaps during WWII).

192x Bing 2 #NA

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Heather Hjorth (Weaklink)
Created: 06-19-2023 at 10:06PM
Last Edit: 06-19-2023 at 10:19PM


Description:

The Bing is somewhere between a toy and a real writing tool. The platen is too small to take a standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. I love the feel of the funky aluminium keys! Additional cleaning and adjustments are needed to bring this unit back to full function. I threaded on a bit of the tired ribbon that came with this machine to get a type sample.
This typewriter is complete with its metal case where the 'made in Germany' part underneath the logo looks like it was scraped off (perhaps during WWII).

Typeface Specimen:

Photos:

The Bing No.2 sitting next to its case.
The Bing No.2 sitting next to its case.

Side view, higher view
Side view, higher view

The 'made in Germany' is scraped off this case around the lower logo.
The 'made in Germany' is scraped off this case around the lower logo.

Side view
Side view

looking down on the little (~8") platen
looking down on the little (~8") platen

Side view of the Bing. Note the lever used to tilt the platen for capital letters.
Side view of the Bing. Note the lever used to tilt the platen for capital letters.

Hunter: Heather Hjorth (Weaklink)

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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 307

I collect a variety of mechanical marvels including accordions, pump organs, and typewriters. In addition to collecting, I enjoy cleaning the machines and learning to perform basic repairs.

My typewriter collection began with a 1950s-era Underwood DeLuxe, purchased in the 1990s. Several decades passed before the typewriter bug bit again. Now I live surrounded by a small army of manual machines, including a Blickenderfer No. 7, a tiny 3 bank Underwood (1923), a Smith-Corona Clipper, a handful of Remingtons, and others.

Typewriters let me commune with the memory of my mother. Mum was an amazing typist - a legal secretary at a white-shoe NYC law firm who could accurately type over 100 wpm. Later in life, she taught middle school - many subjects - but typing was her favorite. Unlike teaching English, there was no pile of unpaid papers to grade. Prior to the advent of word processors, her last typewriter was a hulking beast of an IBM Selectric.



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