Mechanix Illustrated
Issue: Sep, 1956
Posted in: Impractical, Just Weird
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Posted: 08/16/2006
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Mink Typewriter (Sep, 1956)

MINK-CLAD typewriter of Hollywood star Shirley Jones, is used to answer her host of fan letters with warm replies.

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4 comments
  1. Jeff says: January 23, 20087:57 am

    So let me get this straight: Mrs. Partridge had a mink-covered typewriter… Why?!

  2. How far we’ve come… | El Mundo Con Otros Ojos says: June 25, 20082:57 pm

    [...] typewriter we just don’t seem to have for our PC’s today.  I’ve never seen a mink case mod before – have you?  But then again, changing fonts is much easier today then it was with [...]

  3. April says: January 11, 20099:27 am

    Interesting. I have a mink covered typewriter used for a Royal print ad in the 50′s.

  4. Mark says: March 29, 20094:41 pm

    Poor little minks.

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