Ben Metzger<br /> https://www.benmetzger.com/

Restarting the Channel!<br /> by [[Will Davis]]

Restarting his typewriter-related channel because he's seen a bunch of of older typewriter collectors passing away.

Typewriter Artist Creates Meticulously Detailed Cityscapes and Portraits [Interview] by [[Emma Taggart]]

https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7870

GK Mandigo

also u/HumorPuzzleheaded407 <br /> with link via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1m10qih/comment/n3hni2q/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Wt-mzuzLVhNtRyw_Sz9iNRDn37axBO0HAePv7-_dG4/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Typewriter collection of u/JoelBerger via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ltj1eh/comment/n1tszxi/

Reinier Verkleij, a typewriter collector, aka u/DonaldDutchie on reddit via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ljl9xq/fraktur_erika_2/ and uploading of https://typewriterdatabase.com/1915-erika-2.25838.typewriter with Fraktur typeface.

Some interesting typewriter hunters:<br /> - Joe Van Cleave<br /> - Richard Polt<br /> - Michael Hoehne<br /> - Robert Messenger - Ted Munk<br /> - Ian Brumfield - Sarah Everett (aka JustMyTypewriter) - Mei Travis<br /> - Currie Russell - Otto Koponen - Marcin Wichary<br /> - Martin Howard - James Grooms - Suzanne LaPierre - Chris Aldrich

Typewriter repair people: - Scott Connors

Typewriter Collection: IBM Typewriters by [[Erik Bruchez]]

https://youtu.be/_rqIW9SszPg?si=Qii9SO0-N8u1NKMD&t=511

Keanu Reeves has a typewriter collection of 5 typewriters according to a Toronto Film Fest interview in 2013.

Keanu Reeves via Keanu Reeves: 'I Worry That People Won't Like What I Do' by [[Cathryne Keller]] for Women's Health

In 2025, Alton Brown indicated that he owned 15 typewriters.

Mike Rossi on antiques for the collector

For the inveterate collectors out there, I remember Mike Rossi's old TV show and recently saw he was dispensing advice about antiques, buying/selling, and collecting on his relatively new Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/antiquesalley/

Others might appreciate his perspective on buying and selling of the secondary market of vintage pieces and antiques. While he doesn't specifically touch on typewriters (that I'm aware of) a lot of his pragmatic advice is broadly applicable.

Here's an interesting one to start with: https://www.instagram.com/antiquesalley/reel/DJSXLwPhMjH/

posted to https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1khupsb/mike_rossi_on_antiques_for_the_collector/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/usjqn3/does_anybody_know_what_typrewirter_that_is/

Peter Doherty: “I have 40 typewriters and I’m not ashamed of it”<br><br>LISTEN @maryannehobbs : https://t.co/0Z9fvAYCM9 pic.twitter.com/OCaHtPqJ1N

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) May 22, 2016

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vxbqj

Peter Doherty: “I have 40 typewriters and I’m not ashamed of it”

r/sk8cruz = LaDonna Qualtieri https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=6493&collection_search=My+Collection

https://www.reddit.com/user/Jbhusker/<br /> https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7197

same person based on direct message

The patron saint of typewriter collectors by [[Richard Polt]]

u/AmsterdamAssassin typewriter collection https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fvj11a/my_current_collection_of_vintage_mechanical/

https://www.virtualhermans.com/

https://www.antiquetypewriters.com/

The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise by [[Marc Brooker]]

Most hobbies, sports, and areas of interest can be split into four quadrants by an individual's particular sub-interest along the lines of doing/discussing versus the activity/gear for the activity. Many people will self-select into one of the four at the expense of the other three and this can affect the type and tenor of communities around that particular activity.

Excellence in one area doesn't imply excellence in the others. "True" fanatics ought to attempt to excel in all four quadrants.

This sort of worship of objects extends to those who overbuy notebooks (or other stationery). It's nice to "own" them, but it's even more valuable to write your thoughts in them and use them as the tools they were meant to be.

cross-reference: https://hypothes.is/a/sSgxLMGoEe6j8ccyyMeDTw

reply to u/chasemac_ at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/19ep9rc/comment/kjempeu/

I'm curious from where you draw your "original purpose" claim? This presupposes having identified a zettelkasten progenitor who has clearly made such a statement. (If you're thinking Luhmann, you're missing the mark by centuries. And even if you're thinking Luhmann, where did he say this specifically?) While Konrad Gessner seems to have been an early progenitor in 1548, the broader idea goes much further back. Even in the early days of the commonplace book, the primary analogy was using them as "storehouses" for collecting treasure (thesaurus) aka knowledge or wisdom.

Even Luhmann's framing of his zettelkasten as his "second memory" was old by the time he wrote it:

In a short academic dissertation on the art of excerpts, Andreas Stübel described the card index as a ‘secondary and subsidiary memory’ (‘memoria secundaria and subsidiaria’), summing up in just three words the dilemma scholars had been struggling with for two centuries with respect to the use of commonplace books. As far as I know, Stübel was the first among contemporaries to speak of secondary memory. —Alberto Cevolini in “Where Does Niklas Luhmann’s Card Index Come From?” Erudition and the Republic of Letters 3, no. 4 (October 24, 2018): 390–420. https://doi.org/10.1163/24055069-00304002.

If we look even further back we read Seneca the Younger in Epistulae morales, writing positively about collecting with respect to classic rhetoric:

"We should follow, men say, the example of the bees, who flit about and cull the flowers that are suitable for producing honey, and then arrange and assort in their cells all that they have brought in;

Without a clear originator, I might suggest that historically the first purpose was for memory followed closely by learning and then accumulating wisdom and knowledge (sententiae). Using them for output only came much later.

Why is there so much bad ink in the zettelkasten space about about "collecting"? (a la the "collector's fallacy") If you collect nothing, you'll have nothing. You have to start somewhere. Collecting happens first before anything useful comes out of the enterprise. Where are all these "people [who] do nothing but boast about the amount of cards in their box"? I'm not seeing lots of evidence of them in fora or online certainly. Show us your collection of examples of those to back up the claim. Are there index card hoarders out there who honestly have tens of thousands of notes with absolutely no purpose? I suspect it's rare.

If you're a collector, collect away! Take solace in the words of historian Keith Thomas:

Unfortunately, such diverse topics as literacy, numeracy, gestures, jokes, sexual morality, personal cleanliness or the treatment of animals, though central to my concerns, are hard to pursue systematically. They can’t be investigated in a single archive or repository of information. Progress depends on building up a picture from a mass of casual and unpredictable references accumulated over a long period. That makes them unsuitable subjects for a doctoral thesis, which has to be completed in a few years. But they are just the thing for a lifetime’s reading. So when I read, I am looking out for material relating to several hundred different topics.

garbage collection

For a variety of topics and interests there are not archives of information that can be consulted or referenced. As a result one must slowly, but methodically collect this sort of information over a lifetime to be able to analyze it and build theses.

Clever use of this quote. How can you do anything but love it?