(2) Leonhard Dingwerth, Historische Schreibmaschinen: Geschichte, Technik und Faszination. (1) Leonhard Dingwerth, Die Geschichte der Deutschen Schreibmaschinenfabriken- Band 1: große und mittlere Hersteller, BoD – Books on Demand, 2008 (ISBN 3921913381, 9783921913383). The Wanderer Continental was probably the most sold German typewriter of its time (2, at p.53). Its design remained very much unchanged over the years of production (2, at p.53). The first Continental typewriter was built in 1904. A bit of dust cleaning and oil on carriage and the type mechanism, however, did the trick and restored the basic functions, i.e., we could type our first letter within a day. The carriage and some keys wouldn't move properly at first trial. You could see it had been stored in some forgotten dusty place for decades. The Continental came not in neat, but in ok condition. The keyboard layout is Swiss, which means it features all Umlaut needed for German, but also the complete French accents. From the serial number 438669 we can deduct it was manufactured in 1930 (cf. A little plate reading "J.F.Pfeiffer, Basel", and which is attached to the front display, indicates that the typewriter was also originally sold in Basel. We bought this nice typewriter for 65 Swiss Franks at Heilsarmee Brockenstube (a second hand shop) in Basel, Switzerland. Serial number: 438669 (manufactured in 1930) Manufacturer: Wanderer-Werke, formerly Winklhofer&Jaenicke, Sigmar-Schönau, Germany. Continental typewriter, originally uploaded by shordzi.The new member of my collection - Continental Standard, welcome!
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