Lot N. 263
Travel typewriter, Charles Spiro
The Columbia Typewriter Manufacturing Co, 1886
in original wooden case
h 18x28x13 cm
Columbia was the first machine to have spacing proportional to character size. A specimen like ours is preserved in Milan at the "Leonardo da Vinci" National Museum of Science and Technology.
Operation to be verified.
To retire in a villa on the Florentine hills