Typewriter Obsessed

For the love of everything send me more typewriters

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

For the sake of completion:

My header image is:

Royal KMG

1949

Typewriter Database Link

And my icon is:

Underwood 5

1927

Typewriter Database Link

I have owned both of these machines personally, so I know their specific dates.

[provinzpoet]

Yeah. Okay. I said I was done buying more typewriters, but LOOK AT HIM!

He's blue, for Christ sake! I had to take him home. I just had to.

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Consul 224

Circa 1960’s

Typewriter Database Link

[provinzpoet]

Missing parts on typewriters? I just design and 3D print them myself.

So, I kinda bought yet another typewriter. A beautiful 1933 Underwood Portable (You'll meet this one soon) That machine originally came with metal covers for the ribbon spools. Mine didn't. So I'm currently prototyping a replacement. The printer's running as I type this. Will make it available on printables.com as soon as the design's finalized for everyone to download and print at home. May also offer print-to-order at cost, should anyone without access to a 3D-printer need them.

I'll keep you posted! Top image courtesy of u/Salt_Look6906 on reddit

[provinzpoet]

It's done.

Yeah, my 3D-printer's surface quality isn't what it used to be, but I really don't feel like fine-tuning it at the moment... It's good enough for my standards. Anyways, the model is available on printables.com

[the-original-gb-bracket]

Round 1: The Quarterquarterquartersemifinals

Which blog deserves to go to the next round the most?

couldtheycatchkira

identifying-typewriters-in-posts

Voting ended onMay 1, 2025

@couldtheycatchkira

(no propaganda submitted)

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts

(no propaganda submitted)

[couldtheycatchkira]

FROM THE DESK OF COULDTHEYCATCHKIRA:

I can feel a definite shift in the air. Perhaps this is simply how things are for this match, but I suppose going l--l is better than our poor previous opponents, having gone O--O. Truly, such victories perhaps were hard--won. Regardless, let us consider this a 'newline' of sorts, and no matter what happens when the votes are tabulated, it shall be so. Here. A parting gift. Perhaps it jogs the memory.

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Brother CM-1000

Manufacture date unknown (possibly 2010’s?)

Link to a similar example

[the-original-gb-bracket]

Round 1: The Quarterquarterquartersemifinals

Which blog deserves to go to the next round the most?

couldtheycatchkira

identifying-typewriters-in-posts

Voting ended onMay 1, 2025

@couldtheycatchkira

(no propaganda submitted)

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts

(no propaganda submitted)

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Welp, t’was a good run

[a-typewritten-blog]

When you put a thing on eBay but don't know what it is.

Smith-Corona Change-a-Type box for a set of four characters. Since we don't see the box from another angle (or I didn't capture that photo if one was posted), we don't know whether it's for the math series or the language series or what... there were four sets.

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Watching Will Wood music videos (as one does) and happened to see this flash across my screen! A quick check for specifics and:

Royal Quiet De Luxe

1950-1952

Typewriter Database Link

And the video this screenshot comes from is the video for 2012 by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

[urmomatron700]

first thing i did with access to a typewriter

[alegazzi]

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts picture's very zoomed in but you can try

[urmomatron700]

here r some better photos my friend and i also took if u wanted! @identifying-typewriters-in-posts @alegazzi

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

I absolutely love Royal standard machines, they always look amazing and they type great! The real workhorses of the typewriter world. Thanks a million for the tag!

Royal Empress

1962-1965

Typewriter Database Link

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Also, the machine in the back appears to be…

Olympia SG1

1953-1962

Typewriter Database Link

Another legend of the typewriter world!

[gaytobymeres]

Pick an item to steal from my room

Life-sized glass head with sunglasses

Brass pegasus

Vintage escargot forks that are tiny snails that sit in a big snail

A hanging string of felt dragons

Japanese peace lily

Typewriter

Glass cactus

Tiny plastic guinea pig

Plant fossil I found at the beach

Tunnocks caramel wafer

Voting ended onOct 27, 2024

I think this was a tag game going around or something? But I wanted to do it so here we are

[gaytobymeres]

The escargot forks because they’re hard to describe in a poll:

[gaytobymeres]

The typewriter:

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Olympia Traveller de Luxe S

1960’s - 1980’s (exact manufacture dates could not be obtained)

Typewriter Database Link

[urmomatron700]

first thing i did with access to a typewriter

[alegazzi]

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts picture's very zoomed in but you can try

[urmomatron700]

here r some better photos my friend and i also took if u wanted! @identifying-typewriters-in-posts @alegazzi

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

I absolutely love Royal standard machines, they always look amazing and they type great! The real workhorses of the typewriter world. Thanks a million for the tag!

Royal Empress

1962-1965

Typewriter Database Link

[a-typewritten-blog]

A fixer-upper.

Make and model unknown, I give it a good look, but going by the fact that the case is metal it might be a Hermes.

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Olympia SM3

1954-1957

Typewriter Database Link

[a-typewritten-blog]

a Sears "Electric 1" typewriter with a winged ribbon-access feature!

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Typewriter, 1961, Armonk, New York.

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

IBM Selectric I

1961-1984

Typewriter Database Link

[catsofyore]

IT guy is here! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Olympia SG-1

1953-1962

Typewriter Database Link

[andallshallbewell]

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Olympia Colortip-S

1966-1971

Typewriter Database Link

[the-original-gb-bracket]

Which blog deserves a place in the hexadecafinals the most?

reading-comp-posting

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Voting ended onSep 1, 2024

@reading-comp-posting

“This blog was featured in the video ‘Depths Of The Tumblr Gimmick Blog Iceberg’ on the YouTube channel ‘STRANGE ÆONS.’”

“Unlike a lot of other gimmick blogs, this blog actually adds something relevant to the post they're doing their gimmick on. But reading-comp-posting elevates itself even above other relevant gimmick blogs by both being educational and encouraging others to engage with the post--and with their questions!--in a way they might not have before. Identifying an animal in a photo is relevant, but reading-comp-posting invites the reader to engage with the post and the gimmick in a way that elevates their understanding and improves their skills! Seriously, there's no other gimmick blog like it.”

“This person is God's strongest soldier for trying to introduce media literacy to the piss on the poor website.”

“It's both funny and actually straight up good and useful. It reminds me to stop and think, even on posts it does not touch. It takes some actual work and reflection to make these questions, and I think that should be celebrated.”

“its good :>”

“Stopping people from pissing on the poor one post at a time”

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts

“As @/identifying-typewriters-in-posts propaganda, I’d like to point out my impeccable blog organization and intense involuntary drive to complete my task”

[identifying-typewriters-in-posts]

Well, this looks like the end. It was a good run with worthy foe.

[the-original-gb-bracket]

Which blog deserves to move forward in this competition the most?

the-glitter-painter

identifying-typewriters-in-posts

Voting ended onAug 18, 2024

@the-glitter-painter

“This blog was featured in the video ‘Depths Of The Tumblr Gimmick Blog Iceberg’ on the YouTube channel ‘STRANGE ÆONS.’”

“they showed up in a strange aeons video, that was pretty cool. 💖💖”

@identifying-typewriters-in-posts

“As @/identifying-typewriters-in-posts propaganda, I’d like to point out my impeccable blog organization and intense involuntary drive to complete my task”