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Rare Vintage Brosette Typewriter (German) - Manual Portable from the 50's
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Rare Vintage Brosette Typewriter (German) - Manual Portable from the 50's
Good condition with casing – no ribbon included.
Manufactured by Metallwerk Max Brose & Co, Coburg/Bayern
Serial Number: 41045
It is commonly known that the post-war years in Europe were ones in which there was an acute shortage of typewriters. The manufacturing infrastructure had been as badly destroyed as had the economic structure. In the years of rebuilding, the major typewriter manufacturers from before the war were all rebuilt, and restarted production. Some of the companies which had built typewriters pre-war did not re-enter the field, but other companies never before associated with typewriters entered the market. One example of this latter group was the company Metallwerk Max Brose GmbH, located in Coburg (which is in Northern Bavaria) West Germany, which did so with an extremely simple and small machine it called the BROSETTE.
In 1953, a curious sidetrip began. The company had developed a very flat, small travelling typewriter, which it called the Brosette. This machine was displayed at the Hanover Fair in 1953, the first year of its construction. The machine was austere, with no tabulator, 43 keys, and carriage shift. Weight in and out of the case was 9.2 lbs and 11.9 lbs.
Four models were offered -- and these were sold by specialist dealers, as no nationalized sales or distribution network was established. These were the Brosette; the Brosette Spezial, which was even simpler and less expensive; the Brosette Luxus, which was the top-of-the-line model, and the Brosette Export.
Production of the machine lasted until 1959, when it was dropped. The rights for the design, and perhaps the tooling, were sold to a firm in India, but it appears that no machines were ever actually built there. Production had totaled only about 46,000 machines, and perhaps less if Brose did not start numbering at serial number 00001 (speculated that numbering started at 10,000)
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