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See: Antique LC SMITH & BROS No.8 TYPEWRITER Refurbished Restored +Platen,Feet,RibbonĮven the buyer lists this auction as a “MISTAKE.” At $1,299.99, that’s one heck of a mistake!
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NB: If you are looking for a working typewriter, you may well want to consider a refurbished machine, especially considering that restoration can be expensive. Still, one cannot but flinch at $1,049 for an L.C. The Antikey Chop (listed on eBay and Etsy) does regular business, marketing fully restored machines (including the platen). There is, after all, a considerable difference between an $80 paper weight and a $1,000 writing machine. See: Antique cased MERRITT Index Typewriter Ser #611 “PATS PEND” Rare 1st MODEL -1890Ī professionally refurbished machine is especially difficult to assess.
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Did the buyer retract his/her bid? Whatever the case, if the highest bid was $810 the first time, $1,250 is steep. I messaged the seller who replied that the buyer in the first auction turned out to be a “deadbeat,” but the seller provided no details. On May 27, the winning bid on this machine was $810, but it was re-listed shortly afterwards for $1,250. Update: Auction closed, but item re-listed. See: Sholes & Glidden Remington 1 Antique First Qwerty Typewriter Museum Rare Top S&G I do recall, though, that a similar model garnered around $15,000 about a year or so ago, so I wonder if this one is really worth nearly $30,000. The Sholes & Glidden is, after all, the most historically significant machine in typewriter history. The most expensively priced machine on eBay right now is this Sholes & Glidden typewriter, which is difficult to value.
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Update (6/6/14): Item listing ended re-listed at a starting bid price of $250 (see here).
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See: VINTAGE/ANTIQUE PORTABLE FOLDING CORONA. Incredibly, the eBay seller writes, “Missing spring and pull spring. $6,200? I’ve seen folding Standards sell for $500, but also a lot less. Most typewriters are not so rare as to command just any price. Why anyone would pay that much for a Brother - of any vintage - I cannot say, but that auction was the exception. That said, an eBay seller did recently auction a Brother De Luxe for $620. The highest sale price I’ve seen for a 3B is about $400. Obviously, the 3B is rare, but $1,500 rare? I acquired mine - with fiber case - for around $200, which is at the high end of what I would pay for most any machine. Lately, I e-mailed an Etsy seller asking him why he was offering a Remington 3B typewriter for $1,500. Despite being old and “rare,” there are practical limits to how much a typewriter is worth.
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In the interest of full disclosure, if someone were to offer me $8,000 for my Dayton Portable Typewriter, I’d take that offer in an instant.