Sholes Visible (Meiselbach) Typewriter

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

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

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...

Large Pancratic Dissecting Microscope

Large Pancratic Dissecting Microscope, c. 1840 Starting bid: € 750 | Estimate: € 1.500 – 2.000 Georges Oberhäuser, Paris, No. 794, limb engraved on both sides “Georges Oberhaeuser, Ingenieur Opticien, breveté, Place Dauphine, 19 Paris” and...

Boston American Index Typewriter

Boston American Index Typewriter, 1886 Starting bid: € 15.000 | Estimate: € 18.000 – 25.000 First patented by Daniel Edgar Kempster in 1884, then further developed and produced by the Boston Type-Writer Company, large typewheel, upper- and lower-case characters,...