Saturday, July 8, 2017

A glimpse of the Mantelli collection (1)

Yesterday I got to see my friend and typewriter collector extraordinaire Flavio Mantelli. With his permission, I'm sharing some photos of his mind-boggling collection, in installments. 

Here are some rare index typewriters, the Macchina Baby (Simplex look-alike from Italy) and St. Louis World's Fair Simplex:


Baby Simplex (credit card size):


Wayne:


Unknown non-Braille device for the blind:


Michela stenograph:


Wide-carriage Monofix:


More soon!

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