19XX Princess (Keller und Knappich) Madame 500 #22020120
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Aaron Friedrich Lotar Rolf Klamp (Technokid)
Created: 09-12-2021 at 11:36PM
Last Edit: 12-02-2023 at 10:20AM
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Description:
It is a Madame, so you better treat her like one. :-)
Obviously her shell doesn´t fit to the honorable name she is wearing, on the contrary shows signs of an intense worklife.
I personally like Typerwiters that have bin polished through uncountable opperations and gestures, and mostly work better than Typers that have been stored away most of their time.
The Madame 500 was licensed production of the latest Princess design by Keller&Knappich, but where and when I don´t know. I mean to have heard something with east europe once, but I´m not sure.
It has the same qualities as the Princess, and is reliable as wonderful in touch. The design reminds me of brutalistic architecture and the whole mix of attributes combined in this Typer affects me.
It was used in a dental clinic and still has the smell of disinfectants and other remidies. The font is somehow special, so I owe you a typesample
Edit: I attached the missing typesample. According to a fellow collector from Austria, who helped to identify a similar font at a worn Alpina in my funds, this is probaply the Bruxelles Typefont. This Alpina was also in the possetion of the Dentist Clinic, where I got this Madame500 from. So it seems that someone has put attention to the fact, that the Typewriters they own have a different Typeface than the common Pica.
I personally like the Bruxelles Font for its more elegant appeal, while it is a decent and versatible script. Because of this I´m wondering, why it wasn´t as equaly common as the Pica.
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Hunter: Aaron Friedrich Lotar Rolf Klamp (Technokid)
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Student of fine Arts, born and raised in Germany. Since October 2017 addicted to Typewriters with the focus on post war portables made of metall (not plastic).
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