Happy International Typewriter Day!  Today commemorates the date in 1868 when Christopher Latham Sholes was granted a patent for the first commercially successful typewriter.

What are you doing to celebrate? I’m writing about the typewriter market to help out beginning collectors.

@chrisaldrich Be sure to send me the link when that’s posted. Would be a good one for The Cramped.

@patrickrhone Happy Typewriter Day! Fresh off the press: Typewriter Repair Costs and Valuation: Professional Shops versus Collectors versus First Time Buyers

@chrisaldrich Linked! Thanks. As an amateur with a small collection of my own and my best local shop now closed (Vale, RIP) it’s a good and useful guide.

Thanks @patrickrhone! I’ve heard rumors that despite closing down the shop, Mark Soderbeck is still doing some work out of his house if you need him.

@chrisaldrich Hmmm… Noted!

@llbbl I met Bryan Mahoney at a type-in recently at the International Printing Museum and he had a broad selection of some great stickers, some (most?) of which he’s got on his website.

Of course my favorite stickers (for my typewriter at least) are some “This machine kills fascist” ones I got from the Woodie Guthrie museum last year.