june 23

Happy Typewriter Day!

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That’s right — June 23 is World Typewriter Day. And we’re celebrating with a special promotion for our vintage typewriter notecards. This mixed set of 12 notecards features three each of these antique typewriters: the Remington Rand Portable (circa 1940) and the L.C. Smith & Corona Model 8 (circa 1929), both from our own collection, as …

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Happy Typewriter Day!

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Typewriter Day…who knew? I didn’t know either, until last year when I discovered the blog The Typosphere, that June 23 is Typewriter Day — the anniversary of the granting of the U.S. patent to Christopher Latham Sholes in 1868. Just in time for Typewriter Day comes this article in Salon about the renaissance of the typewriter — and, …

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