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Posted 9 years ago
SpiritBear
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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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She's not too bad ! Just a reminder that you can't jog-off ugly ! LOL!!
LOL. To me, she describes half the things one could feel.
And my Indonesian friend called her powerless and tired.
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!
Multi-tasking Celiene ? Probably what gets most of us in trouble. LOL!
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
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.
Wow, great research so quickly. Thank you!
I'm leaning toward the Smith.
Wonderful post card Spirit! I find her look more mischievous than creepy :-)
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.
I FOUND ANOTHER SIMILAR:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/181519-its-a-series
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.
Still a favourite postcard in my collection.