20 Feb 2015

The Fussy Companion

1938  |  Imperial The Good Companion  |  BW 940



Whoa there! That's a lot more unnoticed typos than usual. I'm a bit sleep-deprived, though.

















The only typewriter to ever have "the" in its name?

Sent from my new Imperial The Good Companion

8 comments:

  1. Beautiful and shiny, and great review. Love the shift key detal!

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  2. "The Baby Empire". Also British, though.

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    1. How could I have forgotten? I was the one who sent that to you!

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  3. Totally beautiful!

    I've e-mailed you a picture of "The Society," an Olympia name variant sold in the UK. This use of the definite article seems to be a British trait. To me it sounds elevated, distinctive and a little aristocratic.

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    1. I've seen those before, they were sold by Army & Navy Stores, of all things!

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  4. What a great example! I love the Good Companion in gloss black. I'm not overly impressed with them to actually type on but ooze character and sound pretty good - sort of thwacky - too.

    It looks like Richard has the measure of we Brits :-)

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  5. Oh, the definite article comes from the J B Priestley novel after which the typewriter was named. Imagine if Hermes brought out a Dharma Bums model...

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  6. Beautimus! Fussy indeed, but character-full (:

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