Crandall, New Model

The collector:  Martin Howard, Toronto, Canada.

The collection:  I collect 19th century typewriters from 1880s and 1890s, which were the first years of global typewriter manufacturing. It was during these years that numerous ingenious and beautiful typewriters were made. The standard ‘modern’ typewriter design appeared in 1896 as the Underwood 1 and within half-a-dozen years, the fundamental age of discovery for the typewriter would be over and all typewriters would ostensibly look the same.

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