Flash those fingers and get yours at Monkey Depot. Ebay sharks are asking $100 for this, and with shipping Monkey Depot will get it to you for around $40. We got it here in the States in less than a week.
We were terribly disappointed the nice Korean seller on Etsy couldn't ship us the monocoque 1970-style portable (so was she), so it's a particular pleasure to get this slightly earlier portable with the same money. Still going to get the other when postal and airline lockdowns aren't such a problem.
This portable manual typewriter is the black metal frame style, openwork, with bezel keys. It reproduces the actual Wanderer model from Continental, so it has a QWERTY keyboard. (The French, for example, used a QWERTZ keyboard through most of the 20th century.)
None of the keys work, the return bar is stationary, but the platen does move so you can roll a sheet of paper around it. It comes with two, even, though the person was typing landscape for some reason. It's easy to make your own in any graphics program. So it will suit the language, period, and aims of your doll. A business letter does not look like a fiction manuscript, or even like a personal letter. A personal letter will be on smaller paper, usually, and might be a light colour rather than white.
A tiny soft ribbon runs between the spools. No ink, you will be relieved to hear.
The case is truly exquisite. It has a minute latch in the front for fingernail operation, hinges back, and a magnet holds the typewriter safely. It is sold separately (but we include it in that $40) just in case you are outfitting an office and exile the cases in the basement, so you wouldn't have one visible. That would make this c.$35 shipped.
The paper support may come off, but goes back on easily. Just face the company name toward the typist.
Yes, it is adult-collector fragile. They get like that when they are operational.
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