by Richard Polt | Jan 26, 2024 | fakes
My eye was just caught by this item on eBay. It’s a contemporary agglomeration based on an old clock and an Ideal-keyboard Hammond typewriter, like this one from Geoff Flash’s collection.The intricacy and oddity of the “typewriter” clock...
by Richard Polt | Oct 14, 2022 | fakes
Yes, that’s a “Govrland” phony on the cover of a Stephen King novel: Sie (She), the German translation of Misery. Credit goes to Rodja Pavlik for discovering this travesty. As he says, this thing isn’t going to stop any Annie Wilkes.Read...
by Richard Polt | Jul 6, 2021 | fakes
Everyone knows about the Lego typewriter by now. Only one typebar moves, but the keys go down and the carriage advances. It’s a cute tribute to an increasingly popular device, but in a sense, it is a fake: it can’t actually type.Today I spotted a fake of...
by Richard Polt | Feb 15, 2021 | fakes
Seen on eBay this morning:Cool T-shirt, huh? Yes … except that the typewriter looks so darn weird. What is that huge structure in front of the platen?I know the answer, of course. This is yet another representation of a fake typewriter made in China,...
by Richard Polt | Mar 1, 2020 | China, fakes
Here are a couple of things I spotted online today. First, in Dayton, Ohio (an hour away from me) there’s an unused BNC for sale. A what? The BNC is an office-sized manual typewriter that surfaced briefly about 3 years ago. I believe it was made in China,...
by Richard Polt | Jan 16, 2020 | fakes
By now, the typosphere is familiar with the fake typewriters made in China. (What, you’re not familiar? Follow the “fakes” label at the end of this post.) As I’ve documented before on this blog, the fakes have generated successively more...
