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About The Typewriter Database
What is this?
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The "Database" is probably the biggest source of typewriter serial numbers on the Internet today. As far as I know, it's even the most complete collection of serial numbers ever. But when you see the number of given brand names, it's still only a beginning.
This Database is also a collection of typewriter photo galleries from the collections of enthusiasts all over the world. These galleries are linked to manufacturers and not only serve as a valuable additional resource for research about various machines, but also are fun to page through and see what collectors have in their collections.
This site was created by and for collectors of antique typewriters, with the help of many old documents and other collectors. Its primary task is to help collectors to date their typewriters by the serial numbers of the machines. The data in the database is pretty reliable, since listings of different sources were compared and evaluated, but please don't hold me responsible for any mistakes in old listings. For some of the brands there are no serial numbers available yet and I try to help with some information about the years of production in these cases. Step by step, I'll add data, which was researched by other collectors or by myself. In my opinion, it's very important to focus this information in the database, even when it might be fragmentary sometimes.
Since there were more than 1000 brands of typewriters all over the world, this web page will never contain all the information. But we try our best and we need help. So, if you have any information about serial numbers of typewriters and the related years of production, please e-mail them to me. I need them urgently! We have only the information we can get from old documents and colleague-collectors, so when you contribute, you will help everybody. Thank you for visiting this site. I hope you'll find what you are looking for.
History and Future
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Dirk Schumann's TW-DB has been an excellent resource for typewriter collectors for many years, but has not been maintained in years, and is now gone to the heaven of deleted websites where we hope it's midi excesses and garish color scheme will be forgiven by Saint Christopher (Sholes).
In 2011, I had an email discussion with some other collectors who had tried to contact the owner and had failed, and who were concerned that the site might disappear along with all of its valuable information (which on March 7, 2014, it finally did).
Since 2012, I've been slowly working on cleaning up the html of those original serial number lists and updating them where I have newer, more credible sources. I've also been building this site, which now has this information in a relational database that I can connect to other things, like member's uploaded collections.
Thus I will be splitting my time between building things and updating the data that we have currently. The search continues for more complete and accurate serial number lists, so lend a hand if you can!
Typewriter Database is now seeking typewriter collectors who have photos of their collections and serial numbers handy to beta-test the Typewriter Gallery Uploader. If you would like to be among the first intrepid Typewriter Hunters to upload typewriter galleries for your collection and sightings, please check out this post on my blog and leave a comment indicating you would like to be upgraded to "Typewriter Hunter" status. (make sure you've created an account here first.) Yes, I know it's a convoluted process - but it weeds out the spammers, so please be patient with it. (:
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