Adler Tippa S Typewriter, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

I got this typewriter for Clarkson for her birthday. It is a quite fantastic device. It also happens to be the first thing I have bothered to win at auction at ebay for the paltry sum of £12 + £10 p&p. This is pretty good value since they can go for quite a lot - up to £300 in some cases. The age of this particular model is tricky to determine. The manual that came with it was photocopied from the original and the way that it is written does not suggest it is from the 50’s. It seems like this particular design of typewriter has been in production for quite some time. They even still make them in China apparently.
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