RECONDITIONED TYPEWRITER: ' 58 VOSS WUPPERTAL DeLUXE In CARAMEL: 10 - PITCH PICA - -
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:2872981 | Modified Item: No |
| Year: 1958 | Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany |
| Features: Portable, With Case | Material: Steel |
| Vintage: Yes | Type: Manual |
| Brand: Voss |
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1958 Voss Wuppertal DeLuxe in Caramel --
-- with clean, serviceable case --
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Cleaned typeslugs to the metal. Cleaned platen (in lieu of replacement; it remains pliant). Debris (what little there was) blown out. Benchtop alcohol mechanical wash. Light lube. General cleanup, test and adjust. Polished ...keytops, segment, chassis, chrome & bakelite.
The cleanup and "repair" (such as required) seemed practically nothing, just removal of evidence of usage. Beyond normal age indicators (mainly of the few plastic parts and small and very few chassis nicks) the job was mainly cleanup.
At 61 years old, the look and action of the Voss are as spry as a lanky 11-year-old ballplayer... although better coordinated. I first typed on a Voss while in the Army stationed in West Germany. I'm a better typist now. But the machine too seems to have improved with age.
Specs--Year: 1958Make: VossModel: Wuppertal DeLuxe
Serial#: 116 268
Type: 10-pitch Pica
*Carriage* Shift
Ribbon: 1/2" standard (NEW, All-black, Medium Heavy, installed)
Factory (Usage) Documentation: Clean scan, included
Shipping: Packed, with Case (~23.8 lbs.)
Domestic Carrier: FedEx
International Carrier: USPS Priority International
Insurance: Included
Handling Charges: Get outta here. //
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED:Forget this "as is" bull stuff.Whatever makes you happy -- repair, replace, refund, re-whatever -- it's on my account.Despite the prepay eBay structure, it shouldn't (ultimately) cost you even a nickel to check it out.This is a typewriter, a personal tool you'll have for years to come.If, for whatever reason, you don't like it, you're not stuck with it.It's how machines were sold in their first hundred years. It's how I sell 'em today.You're the buyer. You're the boss. Really. //
On Writing & TypewritersMY APPROACH in all this typewriter stuff is as a writer, a teacher and a publisher. I work with young writers (young in experience if not always in age) throughout the Greater Louisville, Kentucky region. I've learned, both in my own development and through observation, that writing in type fosters the disciplined thinking valued by, and admired in, the best writers.I use the manual typewriter strictly for draft. Because I'm casting each letter immediately to posterity, i.e. the printed page, I'm less cavalier with my grammar and word choice, more inclined to take a moment to think through not just what I want to say, but how -- at least to the next point of punctuation.For finish copy there's nothing better than your word processing application. Writers once used real scissors and tape to rework their manuscripts, the legacy of which remains in your Cut and Paste commands. Drafting on computer seems easy. You stroke a bunch of words, dress 'em out in a nice font and layout, and think you've got a finished piece. A lovely looking sheet of words is not the same as good writing.The villain, posing as your pal, is Mr. Delete Key. How often on a computer first draft have you overwritten yourself? You know you've done it when you reread the piece and wonder where its power went. The power still exists, but it's buried back there in that first crude draft. Unfortunately that's gone now, commingled with some overly doctored version of your mighty original idea, courtesy of your right-pinky man Mr. Deleter. He's so inviting, so ready to help you clear up any "mistake, " that you subject your voice to some tentative sense of what's right when you don't even know what that is. That's why you're writing. Writing is discovery. Mr.Delete-When-In-Doubt lets you believe you can write -- discover -- a perfect first draft.Mr. Delete Key is wrong. Nobody writes a perfect first draft. The day you accept that is the day you enter the zen of the manual typewriter. It is the most sophisticated *thought* processor created by man. Unlike anything electronic, you completely animate it. It is thought -- released physically, gathered to the sheet, speaking to you, stimulating thought.... It is the extension of the only true self-propelled machine, your mind. What you produce breaks off instantly from you, is independent of you. Nobody gets all that meta-whatever stuff down exactly right on the first go-'round, despite what Mr. Delete's presence might imply.A writer is two entities -- writer and editor. The writer works uncritically in the glory of brain-to-paper discovery. The editor is always looking for what's wrong. It's important to keep these guys separate to do their jobs (the delete key is the editor's main tool). The computer gives the illusion of efficiency, where writer and editor work together. With the mastery of process that may be true, but they're always separate. In the development stage it's best to keep them separate *and* apart.Writing in type is risky. First you have to make sure you're getting it right technically -- you know, think "a, " hit "a." Then consider what to say. Then how to say it. What scares people new to typing is that every little part of each process is *on record* -- a record we subconsciously believe may be used against us in some court of whatever.The only thing prosecuting you is the sheet of paper, and you can enter into dialogue with that and come out okay, mitigate (if not litigate) your case. Sure there are risks, but the stakes are low -- the cost of a sheet of paper; the amortized cost of spent ink over the life of the ribbon. You want to add Time to that list, you think. But that's exactly the one thing that is not wasted. Writing is a record of thought. Whether or not the record is preserved has no bearing upon the advances made in thought.As you've scrolled through eBay, you've probably seen a copy of that old book, "The PC [or Mac] is NOT a Typewriter." How true that is. Different tools for different jobs.To process words use a computer; to process *thoughts* use a typewriter.If you're a writer without a typewriter, get one today -- from me or whomever. Make sure it works. If it does -- and if you do -- you will revolutionize your stuff. That's a guarantee.-- Dean Jones, Louisville, Kentucky
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1958 Voss Wuppertal DeLuxe in Caramel --
-- with clean, serviceable case --
//
Cleaned typeslugs to the metal. Cleaned platen (in lieu of replacement; it remains pliant). Debris (what little there was) blown out. Benchtop alcohol mechanical wash. Light lube. General cleanup, test and adjust. Polished ...keytops, segment, chassis, chrome & bakelite.
The cleanup and "repair" (such as required) seemed practically nothing, just removal of evidence of usage. Beyond normal age indicators (mainly of the few plastic parts and small and very few chassis nicks) the job was mainly cleanup.
At 61 years old, the look and action of the Voss are as spry as a lanky 11-year-old ballplayer... although better coordinated. I first typed on a Voss while in the Army stationed in West Germany. I'm a better typist now. But the machine too seems to have improved with age.
Specs--Year: 1958Make: VossModel: Wuppertal DeLuxe
Serial#: 116 268
Type: 10-pitch Pica
*Carriage* Shift
Ribbon: 1/2" standard (NEW, All-black, Medium Heavy, installed)
Factory (Usage) Documentation: Clean scan, included
Shipping: Packed, with Case (~23.8 lbs.)
Domestic Carrier: FedEx
International Carrier: USPS Priority International
Insurance: Included
Handling Charges: Get outta here. //
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED:Forget this "as is" bull stuff.Whatever makes you happy -- repair, replace, refund, re-whatever -- it's on my account.Despite the prepay eBay structure, it shouldn't (ultimately) cost you even a nickel to check it out.This is a typewriter, a personal tool you'll have for years to come.If, for whatever reason, you don't like it, you're not stuck with it.It's how machines were sold in their first hundred years. It's how I sell 'em today.You're the buyer. You're the boss. Really. //
On Writing & TypewritersMY APPROACH in all this typewriter stuff is as a writer, a teacher and a publisher. I work with young writers (young in experience if not always in age) throughout the Greater Louisville, Kentucky region. I've learned, both in my own development and through observation, that writing in type fosters the disciplined thinking valued by, and admired in, the best writers.I use the manual typewriter strictly for draft. Because I'm casting each letter immediately to posterity, i.e. the printed page, I'm less cavalier with my grammar and word choice, more inclined to take a moment to think through not just what I want to say, but how -- at least to the next point of punctuation.For finish copy there's nothing better than your word processing application. Writers once used real scissors and tape to rework their manuscripts, the legacy of which remains in your Cut and Paste commands. Drafting on computer seems easy. You stroke a bunch of words, dress 'em out in a nice font and layout, and think you've got a finished piece. A lovely looking sheet of words is not the same as good writing.The villain, posing as your pal, is Mr. Delete Key. How often on a computer first draft have you overwritten yourself? You know you've done it when you reread the piece and wonder where its power went. The power still exists, but it's buried back there in that first crude draft. Unfortunately that's gone now, commingled with some overly doctored version of your mighty original idea, courtesy of your right-pinky man Mr. Deleter. He's so inviting, so ready to help you clear up any "mistake, " that you subject your voice to some tentative sense of what's right when you don't even know what that is. That's why you're writing. Writing is discovery. Mr.Delete-When-In-Doubt lets you believe you can write -- discover -- a perfect first draft.Mr. Delete Key is wrong. Nobody writes a perfect first draft. The day you accept that is the day you enter the zen of the manual typewriter. It is the most sophisticated *thought* processor created by man. Unlike anything electronic, you completely animate it. It is thought -- released physically, gathered to the sheet, speaking to you, stimulating thought.... It is the extension of the only true self-propelled machine, your mind. What you produce breaks off instantly from you, is independent of you. Nobody gets all that meta-whatever stuff down exactly right on the first go-'round, despite what Mr. Delete's presence might imply.A writer is two entities -- writer and editor. The writer works uncritically in the glory of brain-to-paper discovery. The editor is always looking for what's wrong. It's important to keep these guys separate to do their jobs (the delete key is the editor's main tool). The computer gives the illusion of efficiency, where writer and editor work together. With the mastery of process that may be true, but they're always separate. In the development stage it's best to keep them separate *and* apart.Writing in type is risky. First you have to make sure you're getting it right technically -- you know, think "a, " hit "a." Then consider what to say. Then how to say it. What scares people new to typing is that every little part of each process is *on record* -- a record we subconsciously believe may be used against us in some court of whatever.The only thing prosecuting you is the sheet of paper, and you can enter into dialogue with that and come out okay, mitigate (if not litigate) your case. Sure there are risks, but the stakes are low -- the cost of a sheet of paper; the amortized cost of spent ink over the life of the ribbon. You want to add Time to that list, you think. But that's exactly the one thing that is not wasted. Writing is a record of thought. Whether or not the record is preserved has no bearing upon the advances made in thought.As you've scrolled through eBay, you've probably seen a copy of that old book, "The PC [or Mac] is NOT a Typewriter." How true that is. Different tools for different jobs.To process words use a computer; to process *thoughts* use a typewriter.If you're a writer without a typewriter, get one today -- from me or whomever. Make sure it works. If it does -- and if you do -- you will revolutionize your stuff. That's a guarantee.-- Dean Jones, Louisville, Kentucky
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