1952 Gossen Tippa #67998
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
Created: 04-08-2023 at 03:32PM
Last Edit: 05-15-2023 at 11:01AM
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Description:
Purchased from a seller in Wisconsin, United States in Apr 2023. QWERTY keyboard with Ç/ç key and Western European diacritics. Included original documentation, in Portuguese. Due to the keyboard and an eraser mask from a Brazilian office supplies store that also came with the typewriter, it would appear that it was originally sold in Brazil. (In the 1950s, it seems Gossen typewriters sold in Portugal came with an HCESAR keyboard. I have seen one.)
A type sample will be added as soon as I replace the ribbon and align upper case to lowercase typed letters.
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Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
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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.
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