1955 Gossen Lady Tippa #135217

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Em Barnes (yarn8934)
Created: 03-08-2024 at 04:12PM
Last Edit: 04-13-2024 at 05:35AM

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Description:

Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk (American Aviator). I can't really find any info on the Lady model. I saw the Pilot version (Richard Polt's) at a Cincinnati Type-In (Memorial Day weekend 2023) and loved it - my husband found one on eBay (shipped from Germany) as a Christmas 2023 gift for me. Super nice machine...plastic ribbon spools.

Typeface Specimen:

Photos:

Top view - right ribbon threader holder thing missing....

Rear view with paper support engaged.

Red ribbon setting.

Stencil non-ribbon setting.

Black ribbon setting.

Side ribbon selector moves back, middle, forward to change ribbon color/stencil setting.

Not sure what this dial is - touch selector?

Left carriage and carriage return lever stowed away.

Line spacing choices via dots, 1, 2, 3.

Full view of carriage return stowed away/lower position.

Under the left ribbon cover.

View from the back.

Under the right ribbon cover.

Made in Western Germany by Gossen Erlanger.

Serial Number. There are two stamped numbers.

Lady case.

Inside lid.

Type test.

Hunter: Em Barnes (yarn8934)

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Started collecting in March 2021 when an Olympia SM3 caught my eye at a thrift store. By May 2021, I was up to nine. By September 2021, my husband jumped in to the pool with both feet and our collection grew to 37. Phew. By October 2022 we had 64. In 2023 we began attending and hosting events where we can share our collection with the community and other collectors. We've sold or given away about 21. Good times.