Journal

Operation Mincemeat

We very much enjoyed seeing on the big screen the newly released Warner Bros film Operation Mincemeat with a lovely Imperial "Good Companion" No 1...

Your Imperial typewriter options back in the late 50's

We rather take it for granted that now we can use computer keyboards to type in different fonts and use different symbols with relative ease.But ba...

Buying a Working Vintage Typewriter in Australia

We have been selling excellent restored working typewriters to Aussies across the country for over 8 years now. Hundreds of our superb vintage and ...

Tom Hanks signed book and Typewriter Giveaway

Last month we very kindly received a signed copy of Tom Hank's book " Uncommon Type " which arrived with a lovely letter from the man himself type...

A Remington On The Nile and The City of Typewriters

By Robert Messenger A shiny black Remington Model 2 portable typewriter used by Agatha Christie would seem an unusual inclusion in an Egyptian col...

A Writing Machine That Doesn’t Hum

By Robert Messenger The late Nigel Hawthorne (of Yes, Minister fame) once bemoaned the fact that the great British playwright Alan Bennett used a ...

Kipling's Good Companion

By Robert Messenger Peter Black wrote in The Guardian just before Christmas 1990. “It’s hard to believe that a writer who so often described his c...

THE HERMES BABY TYPEWRITER AND FEMALE AUTHORS

The slimline beauty that has produced great literary works By Robert Messenger The Hermes Baby portable typewriter was the weapon of choice for man...

JOHNNY DEPP AND THE NAKAJIMA TYPEWRITER

A Lighter Portrayal of Hunter S. Thompson By Robert Messenger When Amazon started selling Chinese-made Royal portable typewriters a few years ago, ...

Lugging around little typewriters

When Small Size Meant Big Production By Robert Messenger During almost three-quarters of a half-century career in sports writing, I carried portabl...

From Good Companions to Big Ears

J.B. Priestley gave it a name, Enid Blyton used it By Robert Messenger British author J.B. Priestley gave a typewriter model its name, yet he prefe...

Tennessee William's Typewriters

By Robert Messenger Lot 323 – “An important artifact in the history of American theatre” – sold for $US37,500 (£28,400) at Sotheby’s in New York Ci...