One of the three Olivetti portables I used as work tools way back when was a Lettera DL (DL as in De Luxe; aka the Lettera 33 ). I was ...

I don’t usually publish comments from anonymous readers, but I received one on Saturday which was sufficiently intriguing for me to b...

All you need is some cigarette paper and a pipe stem cleaner!

The Oliver remains one of my favourite typewriters, and like the Monkees I'll be sure to use one over the Christmas-New Year period. ...

Above, the 1942 Sears Christmas Book ad for a Marx Dial typewriter. It was a very popular $2.11 Christmas gift of the time, and 77 years ...