Elliott Fisher Book typewriter
A typewriter made to write on books
This is a very strange typewriter, a typewriter to write on books, from around 1930.
It has also some particularities that you don’t find in normal typewriters. For example it has a very particolar mechanism of shifting from lowercase to uppercase.
First of all you may wonder what is a book typewriter, and, why should you need to write on a book?
Of course this book typewriter can be used to type on the pages of a book that lay flat when opened, or you could use it to write on bookkeeping ledgers.
You can use it also in books for business records, accounting registers, and also to type letters and in the same time print a carbon copy in a copy book. These situations were very common since the beginning of last century and the company Elliot & Hatch built these typewriters since 1897.
In the video you can see how it works.
There is also a very ingenious system of shifting from uppercase and lowercase letters, it's not the common one and it's very interesting.
The model Fanfold and our
About Elliot Fisher it says: The only one in the world writing on the flat surfaces. It allows you to bill numerous documents of different formats and thicknesses at the same time. It also writes in bound registers, advisable for compiling minute books, for notarial work, etc.
The Underwood reseller was Fornasini. I met his son in the 1980s, he bought from me the spare parts for typewriters. He still was selling typewriters, like his father.
