2008 September | CollectibleBitz Blog

The 1878 Remington 2 Set The Standard For Typewriter Design

The Remington 2 was the first model to be sold in substantial quantities and succeeded the Sholes & Glidden that was generally regarded as the Remington 1.

How The Sholes & Glidden Manual Typewriter Changed The World

By Dave Knight

The manual typewriter and indeed it’s successor the electric typewriter is regarded by most people a relic of a bygone age. Modern offices and home businesses now use computers to produce both hard copy documents and electronic documents that whisk across the world in seconds.

However, the personal [...]

Collectable or Collectible?

Collectible or collectable is a noun meaning “Things considered to be worth collecting or an adjective meaning “That which can be collected: a collectible loan” or “Worthy of being collected: collectible antique coins”.

The “Hot” New Collectibles

A few months ago I wrote an article named “Signed vs. Unsigned – Buying Art, Pottery and Collectibles”. The basic premise of the article was my own opinion about “Should you pay the price for signed jewelry, art and collectibles, as opposed to buying what you love, whether signed or unsigned?”.

Since writing that article, I have read in one of my many collectible newsletters and magazines that the “hot” new collectible trend is buying……..

The Trinks-Brunsviga Antique Pinwheel Calculator Is Very Collectible

Sometimes called the ‘Midget’, it is mounted on a wood base with a mahogany veneer and has beautifully curved cover in the same material. It has a capacity of 9×13×8 and I researched the machine using its serial number #45827I and from the resulting information I believe this particular machine was made around 1920.