Mink Typewriter | Modern Mechanix

Mechanix Illustrated

Issue: Sep, 1956

Posted in: Impractical, Just Weird

Tags: mink

Posted: 08/16/2006

Mink Typewriter (Sep, 1956)

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

4 comments

Jeff says: January 23, 20087:57 am

So let me get this straight: Mrs. Partridge had a mink-covered typewriter… Why?!
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 […]
April says: January 11, 20099:27 am

Interesting. I have a mink covered typewriter used for a Royal print ad in the 50’s.
Mark says: March 29, 20094:41 pm

Poor little minks.

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