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02.07.2019
New: HBw-Aktuell 07+08/2019 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the Mercantile adding machine
  • My favorite tools: Seeger ring pliers
  • Documents from the office world of the past
  • Regional meeting in Essen
  • North German regional meeting in Eutin
  • Back to life: Liliput typewriter for small correspondence
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

04.06.2019
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2019 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the first (German) computer mouse
  • My favorite tools: pliers for adjusting typebar links
  • Documents from the office world of the past
  • Beautiful forms in a row: an exhibition of Olivetti design
  • IFHB meeting in Bayreuth
  • Breker auction in Cologne
  • Collectors' meeting after the auction at the Deckstein Tennis Club
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

30.04.2019
New: HBw-Aktuell 05/2019 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: a new typewriter on the market
  • My favorite tools: the TYPIT system
  • Documents from the office world of the past
  • South Hessen regional meeting
  • Automatic signature machines (continues the article in 04-2019)
  • Special exhibit "Fire" in the Dresden Technical Collections
  • Rainer Rzepka's next auction
  • Photos from the visit to the Heimatsmuseum in Garbsen
  • Restoring a rare Morris typewriter
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

02.04.2019
Historische Bürowelt No. 115 / April 2019

This issue contains

  • In the realm of his typewriters: Bernd Mross
  • The Titania typewriter and an unsolved mystery
  • A mechanical mini-typewriter with needles instead of types
  • Office machine finds in museums from all over the world
  • 'Clear competition' documents (find from 1962)
  • Bundeswehr and office machines
  • Staffels four-species calculator: New evidence
  • Precisa - The difficult years of founding a factory (part 1)
  • Electrical connection cables for writing and calculating machines
  • Herzstark and the story of the three Curta prototypes
  • Olympia Plurotype - the last mignon variant from Erfurt
  • Oskar Picht on a €20 commemorative coin?
  • New insights into old offices

Martin Reese

02.04.2019
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2019 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the triple Smith Premier
  • Regional meeting in Essen
  • North German regional meeting in Hamburg-Braak
  • Automatic signature machines
  • office machine collectors’ meeting in Garbsen
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

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