{"id":87458,"date":"2023-11-22T08:49:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/investing\/historic-typewriters-used-by-literary-giants-and-celebrities-up-for-auction\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:49:58","slug":"historic-typewriters-used-by-literary-giants-and-celebrities-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=87458","title":{"rendered":"Historic Typewriters Used by Literary Giants and Celebrities Up for Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-PENTAB-0000035398\">\n<p>This \u201ctype\u201d of sale doesn\u2019t come along very often, if ever.<\/p>\n<p>A bevy of historically significant typewriters from the collection of Los Angeles-based businessman<br \/>\n      Steve Soboroff<br \/>\n       used by literary greats and celebrities\u2014is going up for auction next month.<\/p>\n<p>Buyers will bid on vintage vessels used by some of America\u2019s most famous writers and celebrities at a Heritage Auctions\u2019 sale, at the auctioneer\u2019s Dallas headquarters on Dec. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>Soboroff\u2014who retired as president of the LAPD Board of Commissioners in August after a decade on the job\u2014began his collection on a whim at an auction in 2005, when he outbid the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 1940 Remington Model J used by Pulitzer-winning Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That typewriter was followed by others used by literary titans Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Philip Roth, and actors Greta Garbo, Shirley Temple, Mae West, Julie Andrews, and Tom Hanks. Musicians also feature, including Bing Crosby and Andrea Bocelli, as do notables such as Samuel T. Cohen (inventor of the neutron bomb) and Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re incredible conversation pieces, one-of-a-kind works of art that created one-of-a-kind works. The people who owned them give credit to the typewriters for being their partners in whatever they did\u2014both Andrea Bocelli and Harold Robbins said that,\u201d Soboroff tells Penta.<\/p>\n<p>Soboroff, who likens the typewriters to Pablo Picasso\u2019s paintbrushes and carefully verified each one to ensure its authenticity, followed only one rule as he filled out his collection\u2014the typewriters had to belong to people who appeared on the cover of Time magazine\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only one that breaks the rule is the 1887 Crandall New Model, which was bought because of its historical significance\u2014most notably its vertical typesleeve and curved, two-row keyboard\u2014and condition, which Soboroff claims is the finest of any Crandall in the world.<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"wrap\n              \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n        media-object\n        type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          wrap\n  article__inset\n        article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          article__inset--wrap\n  \"><\/p>\n<p>        <!-- eventually when we know what this card will be we can change it and leave this one --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        img-wrap\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:83.56807511737088%;\" data-subtype=\"photo\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\"><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Ernest Hemingway\u2019s 1926 Underwood Standard, which the author used to write letters from his Cuban estate Finca Vig\u00eda\u2014some 2,500 of which are stored at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Museum Library and Museum\u2014is a personal favorite of Soboroff\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHemingway had seven typewriters in his life, six of which are now in museums. But his last words were essentially written on this typewriter. This is a treasure of the world,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Film buffs can bid on the 1939 Corona Standard typewriter that Barbra Streisand\u2019s character gifts to Robert Redford\u2019s writer in 1973\u2019s <em>The Way We Were<\/em>, and collectors will appreciate the opportunity to own rarely seen models such as Jack London\u2019s 1902 Bar-Lock #10, which has separate keys for lower and upper case letters, no exclamation point, and a \u20182WBMRN\u2019 layout rather than the conventional \u2018QWERTY.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collection has been exhibited in various institutions including the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, where a scheduled four-week stint was extended to run beyond 14 months. During these exhibits, Soboroff noticed how attendees of all backgrounds ended up gravitating towards these historic devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople lined up around the block\u2013they couldn\u2019t believe they were standing with those typewriters. They have so much aura to them,\u201d he says. \u201cTake Hugh Hefner\u2019s 1962 Royal Empress\u2014the sexual revolution happened at that typewriter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"inline\n              \" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n        media-object\n        type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          inline\n  article__inset\n        article__inset--type-InsetMediaIllustration\n          article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<p>        <!-- eventually when we know what this card will be we can change it and leave this one --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n        media-object-image\n        enlarge-image\n        img-inline\n        article__inset__image\n      \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:76.42857142857142%;\" data-subtype=\"photo\" class=\"image-container  responsive-media article__inset__image__image\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"   src=\"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/im-02196089\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">\n      <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Last year Soboroff donated six of his typewriters that had been appraised at an average of US$251,000 each\u2014previously owned by Maya Angelou, Joe DiMaggio, Elia Kazan, John Lennon, Jerome \u2018Jerry\u2019 Siegel (co-creator of Superman), and Orson Welles\u2014to the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of American History.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 33 will serve as the centerpieces of next month\u2019s auction, of which a portion of the proceeds will go towards one of Soboroff\u2019s favorite nonprofits, the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation, which funds scholarships for undergraduate journalism students.<\/p>\n<p>Specializing in finance, insurance, and real estate, Soboroff, 75, formerly served as managing partner of Soboroff Partners, a shopping center development and leasing company, before entering into civic duty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/articles\/historic-typewriters-used-by-literary-giants-and-celebrities-up-for-auction-90f2ba45?mod=investing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201ctype\u201d of sale doesn\u2019t come along very often, if ever. A bevy of historically significant typewriters from the collection of Los Angeles-based businessman Steve Soboroff used by literary greats and celebrities\u2014is going up for auction next month. 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