The boys at the keys

I said in my previous post that there wasn't quite as much click-clacking at WordPlay Cincy these days,  but when I stopped by today, there were many happy mechanical sounds, including those produced by these three eager boys.

The typewriters are a blue Tippa S and two Royal Scrittores. The Tippa was donated by Natalie Tan, and the Scrittores were donated by a local company that used them in a typing competition last July that promoted their product, the TREWgrip mobile keyboard.

Type-out weather

(color enhanced -- and yes, I know our porch is desperately in need of paint)

(Actually, this may be a pre-Champion model.)

"Continental" Arabic Erika (read more here)

Here's a very interesting blog post from someone who visited Najjar Continental in Beirut and made some fonts from the typing of Arabic typewriters.

Revolution in the mailbox: Antipodean salutations

It takes a mere month

— International Typewriter Appreciation Month, to be exact —

for a postcard to wing its way from the Southern Hemisphere

to Cincinnati, Ohio, where it is much appreciated.

Thank you, Agent N., and carry on!