A Gift From Australia

The two type elements on upper left, Orator and Delegate, are the ones that work on my Selectric II machine. The remaining 7 elements are designed for the later III model.

UPDATE: October 19, 2012: I've been getting a lot of SPAM comments on this post recently, so I have disabled further comments on this post, alas.

Selectric II Freaks Out!

IBM Selectric II (1971)

On the other side of this cover page, the date "1971" appears.

Ruth must have painted the room white at some point...

This could be the start of a subset of typewriter collecting. :-)