They also offer reproductions of 15 manuals for antique typewriters, and a reprint of a book on the invention of the Sholes and Glidden. The Early Typewriter Collectors Association includes over 200 members around the world, but mostly in the United States. Contact Wolfgang Mock, Gemarkenstr. The Italian typewriter collectors' association is the Associazione Italiana Collezionisti Macchine per Ufficio d'Epoca, founded in 1994. It includes about 80 members in Italy and other countries.
Membership includes four issues a year of the association's newsletter.
An electronic mailing list devoted to typewriters, TW-LIST, includes well over 100 members, on five continents, who discuss all things related to old writing machines. Please provide your first and last name. Old typewriters may turn up just about anywhere. Antique shows and shops are natural hunting grounds. Flea markets and thrift stores sometimes carry attractive portables, but hardly ever have valuable antiques.