“Polygraph” Typewriter

“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

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...