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ETCetera
is a quarterly full-color magazine featuring
original articles on historic writing machines.

Recurring features include:

Editor's Notes
Collector's Corner interviews
Back to Basics
Show & Tell
Portables, ETCetera by Will Davis
Ephemera by Peter Weil
Around the World
Letters
New on the Shelf


Editor

Richard Polt
4745 Winton Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45232 USA
polt@xavier.edu

creator of The Classic Typewriter Page

Always appreciated: letters to the editor, photographs,
information, questions, articles, book reviews,
and other items of interest to typewriter collectors.


How to Subscribe

$30 in North America, $35 elsewhere

Price includes a subscription to ETCetera (4 issues per calendar year) and membership in ETCA.

Send dues and your contact information (mailing address, phone, e-mail) to our secretary-treasurer, Herman Price. When you pay, you will receive any issues that have been published so far this calendar year, and you will be on our mailing list for the rest of the calendar year.
We accept two methods of payment:


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ETCetera
c/o Herman J. Price, CPA
195 Greenbag Road
Morgantown, WV 26501, USA


Recent Issues





No. 73, March 2006

Cover: Business typewriter
Typewriter Periodicals: A History
The Kabouter
Show & Tell: Nikkei Master
Victor portable
Book review: John N. Williams Story
Back to Basics: Typewriter Photography
Tennessee Williams' Typewriters

Download a free copy of this issue here
Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch (German summary)



No. 74, June 2006

Restoring a Duplex
Portables made today
Collector's Corner: Tilman Elster
Ephemera: A Crandall at home
Make your own typewriter font
Back to Basics: An eBay primer



No. 75, September 2006

Cover: A Burnett for $25
A Writing Ball rediscovered
The Walker Silent Typewriter
Collector's Corner: Shannon Johnson
Olivetti ICO (MP1) portable
Ephemera: Caligraph trade card
Show & Tell: Odell #1
The "Classic Typewriter"
Hermes 2000 vs. 3000
Woodstock portable





No. 76, December 2006

Behind the Alexis
Burroughs typewriters
Ephemera: Business cards
Typing at Sears headquarters (stereo views)
Atlantique City report
Photos: Betz (Harris), Knoch (Ford)



No. 77, March 2007

Mysterious electric Braille typewriter
Highlights from Jim Rauen's collection
The Pocket Type Writer
Corona and Molle
Ephemera: A photographer's Oliver
Shades of Sholes
Ravizza reproduction





No. 78, June 2007

The Conqueror
The Porcelain Writing Ball
Charles Spiro
The Mitterhofer Exhibition
Ephemera: Poster stamps
Show & Tell: Groma N, War Version
Collector's Corner: John Kearns
Will and Dave Davis's workshop




No. 79, September 2007

The Odkolek Typewriter
Czech Typewriter Gallery
The Matous Typewriter
Show & Tell: English Fitch
Portables, ETCetera: Consul portables
Book Review: The Iron Whim
Photo: Imperial (Triumph Perfect Visible)




No. 80, December 2007

Cover: Onondaga collection to be auctioned
The Hermes Baby
Australia's Powerhouse Museum
Typewriters in Modern Mechanix
Ephemera: Pinbacks
Portables, ETCetera: type levers



No. 81, March 2008

Livermore's Permutation Typograph
The Early History of the Noiseless
Barney's Ideal model
Portables, ETCetera: Flat portables
Ephemera: Crandall in a general store
Book review: The Typewriter Sketchbook




Index of back issues

Please follow this link for a complete index of ETCetera issues 1-80 (1987-2007).



Ordering back issues

Issues 1-49 (1987-1999), edited by Darryl Rehr,
can be downloaded in PDF format from our index page.

1987-1996 issues can also be ordered in print from
The Virtual Typewriter Museum.

  Issue 50, edited by Kevin McGowin, and issues 51-72, edited by Chuck Dilts and Rich Cincotta (2000-2005), can be ordered from Rich Cincotta, PO Box 286, Southboro, MA 01772, USA, typewriter@writeme.com. Some covers and contents of these issues can be seen on this page.

 

Issues 73-76 (2006) and 77-80 (2007) can be ordered for
$25 per year (North America) or $30 per year (elsewhere).
We accept two methods of payment:

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2. Or mail US$ checks or money orders, payable to Herman Price, to


ETCetera
c/o Herman J. Price, CPA
195 Greenbag Road
Morgantown, WV 26501, USA