Antike Schreibmaschinen | Typewriters

Each collector has eventually begun. Although many collectors of antique typewriters professionally have or had to do office technology, there are many initial sparks for this passion.

The “Corona 3″ can be called a standard machine for collectors and is therefore well suitable for observations concerning the development of market prices for antique typewriters.

This week the auction of a Victor Index ended - with a reasonable price of 3,335 Euro. The Victor was the first typewriter which used a daisy wheel with types of rubber to bring characters to paper.

The Crandall New Model Typewriter is one of the most beautiful typewriters ever produced - elegantly decorated with painted flowers, golden pinstripes and mother of pearl.

In the year 1907 the “Junior” appeared on the American market - with the smallest keyboard ever built. It did not yet have of a paper table and the ink was brought onto the paper over an ink roller. In 1910 the “Bennett” appeared as its successor, now carrying the inventors name (Charles) Bennett.

Well, actually it was to be expected, but sometimes it’s just wishful thinking. The Helios found has only scrap-metal value.

Here is a watchlist for prices paid for some collectors machines.

Is a restoration of this Helios-Klimax with three different shift keys on the left side and four rows of characters on the typewheel possible?

Welcome to the typewriter-blog on antik-online.net!

The first entry deals with the question, if old typewriters are suffering a price erosion.