These are German-made Continental portable typewriters from the Third Reich era. The prewar 1937 example is one with a tabulator, a mechanical device allowing you…
Reproduction Rubber Stamps
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I have been asked many times about the “purple pencil” often seen used for signatures in WWII German documents. The fact is, there was no…
This is a 1942 Olympia Robust typewriter in the original military style transit crate. The inside lid of the case has a paper label with…
I scanned a Wehrpass tonight. It was issued in 1940, to a soldier who served from 1941 until his death in 1944. Here are all…
Wehrmacht soliders used lots of different types of ink bottles. Excavated finds from dumps in former Wehrmacht positions in eastern Europe have turned up a…
Probably every person who went to school in prewar Germany would have been familiar with a “Griffelkasten.” This was a wood box used by children…
A friend has this original Wehrmacht instructional book on sign painting. There are some illustrations of writing stuff inside. The dip pen nibs shown are…
I recently picked up this vintage German bottle of oil for bicycles, sewing machines and typewriters. It has a Bakelite cap and remnants of the…