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    Posted 8 years ago

    SpiritBear
    (813 items)

    I'm wondering if anyone can identify the typewriter in this?
    It's a colourised (by hand?) real-photo postcard circa early 1900s.

    Ignore the creepy-looking lady.... She terrifies my Texas friend. So I changed my profile picture to her on where we talk. LOL.

    The caption is as follows: "I Cant write today."
    Not sure what the scene all means....
    Postcard was never used.

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    Comments

    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      She's not too bad ! Just a reminder that you can't jog-off ugly ! LOL!!
    2. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      LOL. To me, she describes half the things one could feel.
      And my Indonesian friend called her powerless and tired.
    3. Celiene Celiene, 8 years ago
      She 'cant' spell, either! It's 'can't'! Is it an American post card? She can't write because she is engaged in office shenanigans with her boss!
    4. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 8 years ago
      Multi-tasking Celiene ? Probably what gets most of us in trouble. LOL!
    5. Celiene Celiene, 8 years ago
      Looks like a 1910 Japy (french) Telepgraph typewriter. See here - scroll down a bit, or do a ctrl F for Japy. See the weird Right hand return bar? And that would explain wiry there is no Apostrophe in "cant" - that didn't use them in telegraphs. (It was a wasted character - they charged per character.)

      http://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-unrobust-boy-who-hogged-typewriter.html

      OR - maybe a 1910 or 11 L.C. Smith.

      http://typewriterdatabase.com/1910-lc-smith-2.2399.typewriter
    6. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      It's common to see grammar errors, and even spelling, on old postcards.

      The theme is interesting and open to debate. I had wondered on that one, too.
    7. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Wow, great research so quickly. Thank you!
    8. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      I'm leaning toward the Smith.
    9. Rick55 Rick55, 8 years ago
      Wonderful post card Spirit! I find her look more mischievous than creepy :-)
    10. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      I've grown fond of her, so much so that I 'built' a site for antique postcards and trade-cards on Google+ and used that postcard as its cover-images. LOL.
    11. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      I FOUND ANOTHER SIMILAR:
      http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/181519-its-a-series
    12. UncleRon UncleRon, 8 years ago
      She's probably supposed to be pleased that she's getting some attention from that handsome guy in the office but it looks like sexual harassment to me.
    13. SpiritBear, 8 years ago
      Still a favourite postcard in my collection.

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