On Sunday afternoon we bought this typewriter. We had gone to browse our two favorite stores (8th Ave. Antiques and Pre-to-Post Modern Vintage) in search of used furniture and otherwise useful, cool things for our new house. We've had great luck at both of these places, from which we've purchased a coffee table, end tables, nightstand, dressing mirror, desk, and artwork; our requirements are only that the item be useful, cheap, and better made than anything at Target. On Sunday we considered this typewriter for a long time. It's not particularly useful, as the store owner estimated it is probably from the 50's or early 60's (design on the typewriter, tweed case). It wasn't particularly cheap (marked "Vintage Typewriter: $50"). And there's clearly no Target-brand typewriter to compare it to. But it came home with us, and now sits on my desk where my laptop used to be. We're by no means antiques collectors or experts (...
