Vintage typewriter: A relic to relish
Typewriters are a bygone reality as computers and notebooks take lead. The utility of the typewriters is minimal but the beauty is just mystifying. They are no real than history for our generation and dust on them would compliment that.
Unique is something that propels a few, but if the relic out of the grandma's cupboard is one like this, then one sure can't help but gawk at it. Displayed at the Pieritz Bros. Inc., an office supply store and a museum for old typewriters, Blickensderfer 5 is one of its kind machines ever built.
This rear and exclusive device was introduced at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and was used by a railroad employ to type menus for the dinning car. Two years thereafter, three brothers, Robert, Henry and Arthur Pieritz, opened their office supply shop, and since, the Blick 5 rests at the trio's store.
The man however, walked into the path of an oncoming train, and parted ways with the possession and life in 1911 in Denver. He perhaps lost it, but the hosts, granddaughter of one of the founders, Deborah Pieritz, or her brother-in-law, John Robert - sit waiting for the artifact lovers on visit to the Pieritz Bros. Inc.
[Source: Features Blogs]
