In this issue (among others):

• Curiosities of historical office technology
• Special exhibit in the Elgg, Switzerland
• SHBS member swap meet in Pfäffikon
• Phony eBay auctions
• Special characters for golfball typewriters
• Type guide as cufflink
• Show in Attendorn from collections in the IFHB, SHBS, and museums

Peter Muckermann

This issue contains

• Experiences in the Hamann calculating machine factory
• On the history of the publisher "Burghagen"
• The development of typewriting accounting machines
• Book review: "Alledaagse makes"
• Writing machines with coin slot
• A different kind of automatic typewriters

Martin Reese

A price list for typewriters is available now in the members area. Since 2003, Peter Muckermann has collected ebay prices and published them in the HBW-Aktuell. These data have been reassembled and edited. The list contains prices in the form "minimum - medium - maximum" for a lot of typewriter models, many of them with state description.

Harald Schmid

This issue contains

• Office research: Lehmann's Apartment indicator for Vienna
• Office machines around seafaring
• Ernst Schuster versus Grimme, Natalis & Co.
• The notes typewriters "Musicwriter"
• Stoewer's small typewriter
• From the history of the office machine collectors scene

Martin Reese

In this issue (among others):

• Curiosities of historical office technology
• General assembly of the SHBS in Brülisau
• "Office Antiques" auction in Cologne
• Collectors’ meeting after the Cologne auction
• Regional meeting in Essen
• Regional meeting at Alois Brefka’s private museum

Peter Muckermann