1948 Gossen Tippa #6133

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
Created: 05-09-2023 at 03:20PM
Last Edit: 05-11-2023 at 11:12PM

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Purchased in May 2023 from a seller in Ontario, Canada. Original maroon color crinkle finish painted shell and lid. It is in very nice condition, appearing to have spent most of its 75 years to date securely housed under its lid. German QWERTZ keyboard with an unusual modification: The "Ö/ö" key that is typically located just to the right of the "L/l" key has been replaced with a "~/$" key.

Currently, this is the lowest Gossen Tippa serial number appearing in the TWDB, and the first Tippa listed that was manufactured in 1948. I find it interesting that the serial number here is stamped on a small metal plate that is then screwed to the base below the right ribbon spool. Later early Tippa examples have the serial number stamped directly on the base, in that same location.

I'm picturing the typewriter here with a Tippa-branded leather briefcase that I received with a different typewriter. Actually, I am wavering between keeping the case with the Tippa it came with, marrying it to this one, or offering it for sale separately.

The carriage return lever travels a bit low, lightly rubbing across the ribbon cover. (I removed that cover to create the provided type sample.) Also, the carriage occasionally does not advance after typing a character, and the horizontal alignment needs refinement. I will post more photos and a new type sample once I have serviced and adjusted the machine.

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I'm a semi-retired software/web developer with a now eight-year-old grandson, Jaxon, who is crazy about typewriters. In late 2021, at age six, Jaxon got a Montgomery Ward Escort 350 portable from Goodwill that absolutely fascinated him. He still takes it everywhere, and remains especially pleased that it has a key for the number one. He considers his Escort to be our best typer, but I think that honor goes to our second generation 1969 Hermes 3000. Jaxon's got me hooked, and now--between us--we have a growing collection of writing machines. Together, we've set up and equipped a small workshop area and, whenever we get the chance, we clean and perform minor repairs on our typewriters. Now that Jaxon's reading and writing skills are steadily improving, he rarely needs anyone to tell him how to spell the words he wants to type.

Newer to typewriter collecting than Jaxon, I am particularly interested in ultraportables and portables, and have developed a special fondness for Gossen, Hermes, and Rooy machines. I am also very interested in any brand/model with a HCESAR keyboard layout. A collector-at-heart--I have long collected West Indian fiction (40+ years) and Haitian art (30+ years)--I am old enough to have owned and regularly used typewriters back in the pre-PC days.