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| This is my vintage stapler, an Arrow 210. I didn't know anything about staplers when I bought it, just that I wanted an old one and this was a good price. I bought it up the way up to the typewriter gathering at Herman Price's Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum. Incidentally there was a really cool presentation on paper fasteners there and I learned a lot. This is a pretty typical stapler except that the top comes off for convenient tacking. There is also a three way anvil for permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary (or splayed) stapling. |
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| But do any of you have an old school tape dispenser? I know nothing about this except it is cast iron and would make a great head smashing weapon in the imminent zombie apocalypse. |
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| My writing desks, comfy recliner for reading, and record player in the corner. The brass desklamp is vintage, the desk fan is Wal-Mart I think (I saw one like it there recently) but both add perfectly to the look I was shooting for. |
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| Other side of the room. Too many typewriters? Not possible. |
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| My spiffy writing desk I got for free with the condition I should clean all the mold off first. It took a little bit of elbow grease and some hydrogen peroxide but it wasn't too bad. |
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| Oh yes, it is one of these desks... :) |
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| It had a crappy 70s Smith Corona electric in it when I got it. That machine is now just kinda chillin on my front porch. The Underwood was a perfectly attractive and fun to use machine that I don't care enough about so that if the desk collapses it will have been less of a loss than other machines I have considered. |
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| I am sure you saw my wall hangings in the other pics, here are some closer up photos. Sorry I don't have a large tripod and they are blurry. From top to bottom, left to right: Royal KMG ad from eBay, boxy-body Hermes 3000 ad from eBay, Smith Corona portable ad from eBay, and WWII era Royal KMM ad from eBay. |
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| Top to bottom: WWII Royal KMM ad I found in a Saturday Evening Post magazine at an antique store, Royal ad with awesome comic style graphics from the 40s I got on eBay, and WWII Smith Corona ad I found on my own in another Saturday Evening Post. |
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| Another WWII Smith Corona ad I found. |
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| Sorry this is blurry, but I don't know about posting other people's words on my blog... might take better pics one day. Anyhow from top to bottom these are: a certificate saying my KMM was used in a David Baldacci film called Wish You Well signed by the propmaster who I loaned it to, a personal letter from Tom Hanks typed on a Smith Corona Silent-Super, an award from Virginia Tech signed by now best selling author Edward Falco who was one of my professors, a signed form letter from Dean Koontz, and a letter from Steve Soboroff typed on Ernest Hemingway's Royal. |
Robert Messenger, if you are reading this I DO have the awesome poster you gave me at the Chestnut Ridge event and I intend to hang it but until I find work and make some money I won't be able to frame it and put it up.
Funny, I won a bid for an Arrow stapler exactly like yours but returned it because it was defective, so I ended up with a Monarch. Your desk is cool!
ReplyDeleteGreat writing space. A desk like that is just what I need! The typewriters sit too high on my standard office desk.
ReplyDeleteCool stapler. That shade of green is, somehow, very evocative.
ReplyDeleteI have a Hermes adding machine and a few Hermes typewriters, so I could go all light green on the whole desk if I ever wanted to.
DeleteOh, that desk is brilliant. I want one! I wonder if I can get someone to make one.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff, and I love that stapler. You know, I never look for staplers! Such a pity.
Those shelving units look exactly like what I need to store my own typewriters… What kind are they?
ReplyDeleteThey are the ones that are about $100 at Lowes, but you need to get your own plywood shelves because the stock ones aren't up to it at all (particle board) but the shelves are exactly 2x4 feet so if you have them cut a sheet in half at the store you get two! It was important to me that the shelves were two feet deep, and that they supported at least 500 pounds a shelf (these are 1000 or 1500, I don't remember).
DeleteA magical desk indeed!
ReplyDeleteLove that office!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat office setup. Our radio club (w7dk) has a desk like that in the Doc Spike Museum station with a Remington 17 "mill" mounted inside. I've long coveted both, but they belong there.
ReplyDeleteGreat desks! Even without the hidden typewriter it looks amazing. The second one too by the way.
ReplyDeleteThe fan! The record player! There's a man cave I can get behind. You're lucky to have a space like that.
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