Antique Typewriters &
Other Office
Related Antiques
We can help you sell Antique
Typewriters, Antique Office Equipment and Related Antiques!!
We are active full time antique dealers in vintage 
office
related antiques and early antique typewriters.
We buy sell and deal in many different office antiques and collectibles from near the turn of the last century
in addition to antique typewriters and the website where we conduct our
antique sales from our sister website
www.Patented-Antiques.com.
Vintage office related antiques such as early antique staplers,
mechanical pencil sharpeners,
antique check protectors,
antique calculators / adders, vintage slide
rules and more are quite collectible and are of interest.
I have provided addition specific
information on some of these other categories of office antiques on other
pages at this site and have attempted to lay out the criteria or
guidelines for the age or vintage and condition of the types of things we
deal in. We can help you sell these antiques through our
consignment sales program, oftentimes for far more than you can realize
selling them locally or elsewhere on the internet. There is a
separate pages at this site for
Pencil Sharpeners,
and for electric or
fuel fans and
calculation. Please visit those pages if that is what
you have.
Please contact us at LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
if you have EARLY PRE 1920 office related antiques that
you want to consign with us. If you have additional questions please
see the FAQ page,
or other informational pages you will find in the left hand column here
and on our other site
www.Patented-Antiques.com
The condition is critical to the
value antique & collectible typewriters and other office antiques . With
most office collectibles
and antiques the earlier
the bette
r
and the more unusual the better and more valuable.
There are few typewriters or any other office antiques that
date from later than the 1930's that are considered desirable or command
good prices. Unless they are the first model of a given typewriter
typewriters such as Underwood,
Corona, Remington, Oliver and many other later typewriters from the 1930's and
later are poor sellers and not much in demand.
Antique typewriters and early office machines
that have a different appearance from the norm are usually of interest an
d if you will look at the
pictures that I have provided here you will get a sense of what I mean.
These features would include those
machines called Index typewriters. These vintage typewriters have unusual indexing devices instead
of standard keyboards (like the machine to the right). Most index
style machines sell in the 300 - 3000 dollar range, but there are a few
notable exceptions.
Any typewriter whose keyboard does not spell out QWERTY as the first six keys on the top left side of the
keyboard is going to be a good & collectible typewriter. MOst typewriters
that have this characteristic have values in the 4 figure range.
Antique Typewriters that have double
keyboards (one each for upper and lower case) or curved keyboards,
or keys that are made of wood would qualify as unusual and are very
saleable. Some of these are pretty common while others are
very rare. Depending on the model, and name, machines like this can
sell for mid 3 figures and up to 5 figures.
Antique typewriters that have
keys that strike the paper from below or behind are desirable and collectible
as well. In other words antique typewriters that have different features from those that you see on most
machines have the most potential to be collectible and thus more valuable.
Most typewriters seen at the thrift stores or at most garage sales these days
are too late, and too common to have much value.
The picture at the top of the page on the left above is of a
vintage typewriter
called the New Franklin and is an 
example of an
antique typewriter that has
a curved keyboard. Another well known
machine that had this feature on its earlier models is the Hammond
typewriter. The values for most versions of these are in the
mid 3 figures to the low 4 figures.
The Hammond is a good example of the types of changes
that a typewriter could go through during its production period over the
years, and how different models of it have different values.
The first model Hammond had a curved keyboard with wooden
keys that almost looked like small piano keys. This is the most
valuable and as expected hardest to find model. Later models
were offered with either curved or straight keyboards, and the keys
themselves developed into something very similar to those on most later machines
found today. The typewriter on the right is a #12 Hammond and is
considered a relatively common machine and can be found quite
easily. They also produced what is know as the Multi-Plex another
relatively common machine
Names of some other desirable curved keyboard
typewriters include the Polygraph, Imperial, Salter,
Columbia Bar Lock and Crandall to name just a few.
T
he next few pictures are of the style
typewriter known as index typewriter, or keyless machines. Many
of
the machines or typewriters that have this patented feature
instead of the typical keyboard are good collectibles and in demand. One of
the best known of this style of typewriter is the Odell which was first
patented in 1887. These came in several models numbers, each having subtle
differences from the first model. Again the first model is
considered the hardest to find. Their value can range from just a
couple hundred for well used beat up models to $1000.00 or more for nice
ones in their original box like the one above.
It should be noted that there are
other index typewriters that are very similar in appearance with different
names on them that were produced either under
license from the patent holder, or as with some models of calculators and
other office devices, as knockoffs or copies of the real thing that were
offered on the market in competition to the real version.
There is a
lot of room for further research and documentation to find out all the
history of many of the different typewriters. While the Odell
and the French Virotyp pictu
red above were based on a round design, other
typewriters with an indexing feature were straight like the Merritt
index typewriter. These typewriters were
very popular
as attested to by the number of machines that have survived today. It must
have been a combination of low cost and the notion that most people's
handwriting was so bad that they needed to spend the time fiddling
with one of these contraptions in order to have their thoughts understood
on the receiving end. I wonder how many words a minute were possible
with one of these.
Some other names of early patented typewriters that operate
in a similar mode and that I would be interested in buying are The
Hall, Champion, Peoples, Columbia, and Crown, to name just a few.
For more detailed information, and a
more complete history of the Typewriter, plus a look at an extensive
collection and some more views of nice examples of some other rare typewriters,
visit The
Virtual Typewriter Museum. It is one
of the best typewriter sites on the web. And if you are looking for
tips on restorations or a source for those worn decals and even more
typewriter information visit Paul Roberts website
The Typewriter Restoration Site.
Antique Typewriters & Office
Antiques Previously Sold
The typewriters
below are an
example of the
caliber, condition and quality of office antiques that I am primarily interested in.
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Below*****
If you have any antique typewriters or other office
related antiques similar to the examples
shown below that you want us to help you sell and consign to our sales pages at
www.Patented-Antiques.com, please contact us at
LCM@AntiqBuyer.com
.
To see examples of office related antiques
that I currently have for sale please go to our sister site
at www.Patented-Antiques.com.and
visit the numerous sale pages you will find there.
If you have additional questions about our consignment
sales program please see the
FAQ page
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