Columbia Index No. 2

Feb 12, 2025

Columbia Index No. 2, 1884 Starting bid: € 1.200 | Estimate: € 2.500 – 4.000 Serial no. 1348, designed by New York watchmaker Charles Spiro (who later invented the “Bar-Lock”), with large typewheel for upper and lower case, set by two different...

“Polygraph” Typewriter

Feb 12, 2025

“Polygraph” Typewriter, 1905 Starting bid: € 2.200 | Estimate: € 4.000 – 6.000 Polyphon Musikwerke, Leipzig. With a 3-row universal keyboard and double shift, but with only 32 keys for 96 characters (!), making it the most versatile German machine of...

Sholes Visible (Meiselbach) Typewriter

Feb 12, 2025

Sholes Visible (Meiselbach) Typewriter, 1901 Starting bid: € 1.200 | Estimate: € 1.800 – 3.000 Meiselbach Typewriter Co., Kenosha, Wisconsin. Serial no. 3337, a most bizarre typewriter design attempted during the development of machines with visible script in...

Discret (Diskret) Typewriter

Feb 12, 2025

Discret (Diskret) Typewriter, 1899 Starting bid: € 3.400 | Estimate: € 7.000 – 10.000 Manufactured by Dr. Friedrich Rehmann, Karlsruhe, Germany; one of the most attractive typewriters ever built. As the name says, “Secret and World Typewriter”...

Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

Feb 12, 2025

Malling-Hansen “Writing Ball”, 1867 Starting bid: € 50.000 | Estimate: € 65.000 – 100.000 The world’s first commercially produced typewriter, designed by Rasmus Malling-Hansen (1835-1890), Copenhagen, Denmark. With hemisphere of 54...