Davis Typewriter Works

Readers of my site are aware of the range of Bulgarian-made portables loosely affiliated by the name MARITSA, which is the name of the river...

Here is a machine that I've been after for some time- actually, it's from a family that I've been after any one of for a long t...

The machine you see here just arrived at the Works today. This is an SCM Smith-Corona Secretarial 76 . This model name and number might not...

The Adler J5 you see here in pieces was displaying an odd problem; operation of the keys caused the ribbon selector switch to move wildly t...

The blog has gone a little quiet all of a sudden the last few days, largely because fellow collector and long time collaborator Thomas Fuer...

Our German friends at Historichesbuero have responded with some data. Thomas Fuertig informs us that the Collegiate I now have is also som...

Just arrived here today, after an unopposed win on e-Bay is the COLLEGIATE , serial number 501963 . I recognized the machine as some sort o...

Dave's recent post comparing form vs. function for typewriters generated a comment asking about five top picks -- that is to say, five g...

At the recent collectors' convention I had the chance to mention, fairly in passing, my long-ago reporting on the very end of the Remin...

At the recent gathering that Richard Polt held at and around his home, I was treated to the sight of a Barr typewriter. The Barr, I thought...

In June, Richard Polt held what has come to be known as an epic collectors' convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Among many other things th...

For those of you who have been awaiting (or, perhaps, dreading) our return to "new content" action on the internet, the time has a...