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Underwood De Luxe Quiet Tab

You’re So Vain: 1956 Underwood De Luxe Quiet Tab

Look at this 1956 Underwood De Luxe Quiet Tab, serial number AA2633478.  He’s so handsome!  Underwood flexes for us and displays the bulging muscles of America’s postwar abundance. Gold accents! He’s living large – the embodiment of industrial designer Raymond Loewy‘s quip: “The loveliest curve I know is the sales curve.”

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August 13, 2019maryech 20 Comments

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I am a middle-aged mother of two whose 12 year-old dragged home a broken typewriter. We fixed it. It was fun. It is fun. Now we have ten or twelve. We love our manual typewriters.

It was sitting on the curb...

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