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| This is a spiced wine that I first heard about when I worked for the Germans. The brand they had was different and a bit spicier. Perhaps more alcohol content also. |
Time to go check the ham roasting in the oven and make some cornbread.
Hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas and hopefully Santa left many typewriters under the Christmas tree.
My other machine I bought is a fixer-upper Erika simply for the challenge. Plus it has a German keyboard. Now if anyone knows if 2 cast into the opposite end of the bar with the serial number means the model it will throw a kink into the Erika data on Ted's site. SN is 9190. Thanks to Nick Tauriainen who is helping me with this one.
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| This number shows up with full size machines, not portables. I have a portable that kind of looks like an Erika model 5, but the serial number is waaaayyyyy off. The only number I can find. |
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Bill. I hope all of your endeavors prosper in 2016!--Aubrey
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DeleteI hope you had a great Christmas. Best Wishes for a most Prosperous New Year to you also.
Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteTippas are wonderful.
Hope you had a great Christmas and all your travels and book signings go even better than expected. Best Wishes for your New Year.
Delete108815 would fall into about 1956. If Google Translate is right, Herstellungsdaten 1962 says Gossen Tippa was produced up until 1958, but numbers past 1954 are unknown.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
Thanks Ted. My guess was about the mid-50s from reading Robert's blog.
DeleteI hope you had a great Christmas. Best Wishes for a Wonderful New Year to you and yours.
I just updated the Gossen Tippa serial numbers, and I revise my guess to 1955.
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I just commented 54 on your post. What's a year in typewriter history? Thanks Ted.
DeleteMerry Christmas indeed. And this is a beautiful typewriter! I love my Gossen Tippas.... and I now have several of them. Thanks tor posting this up. Looking good!
ReplyDeleteYes Scott, it was quite a Merry Christmas. I hope yours was also.
DeleteA Very Happy New Year to you and yours.
Mrs. M knows you well Bill.. what a perfect Christmas present she found! Sounds like you had a wonderful festive season and new year. Having my son and family over from Sydney made mine perfect, my granddaughter is too gorgeous :)Here's wishing yourself and Mrs. M all the very best for 2016, happy new year!
ReplyDeleteHow lucky for you! I have one from 1952, or so I suspect from the serial number 65976. Happy 2016!
ReplyDeleteIf it is anything like the later plastic bodied Tippas from Adler, it will be an excellent typewriter. I know Gossen original comes highly rated so I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteRob,
DeleteI have an Adler Tippa S. It is not as nice of a typer as this Gossen Tippa. I like the typeface of the Tippa S better though.
My Tippa S
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