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Message:: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 12792045, member: 3235"]A Blickensderfer Featherweight from 1915 ~ a revolutionary and scarce machine. Aluminum body, barrel type shuttle rotates forward to strike paper with the proper letter (just like a IBM Selectric did 50 years later). Considered by many to be the Worlds first true portable. It was totally frozen, but after a laborious cleaning & lubing . . it's working !<img src="https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/565183938_2932504523602803_840995980861594387_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1200x1071&ctp=s1200x1071&_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=x0xHBsjYW_4Q7kNvwG67Bhw&_nc_oc=AdrOzfWewTYFhPO-13lomWbI2nREU4mChUDZBYyWCp1p1uY-QMnZY1hQWdpBXHtPaXWlfBP498SpTdHOG8dzmXa1&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=BjfP-DUoTMNDIrta8xd4-A&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_AQAOiU6U4BDwAX4CUccsWoo2lI_llHWw2vQHSaXw6KCyqQ&oe=6A69611A" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[ATTACH=full]556540[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]