Found-Object Report | Object report

Typewriter

Lost Art-ID

585327

Artist / Creator

Unknown

Title

Typewriter

Dating

1939 (um, around)

Object type

Technical instrument

Group of reported objects

Machine/Mechanics

Material / Technique

Metal ; Lacquer ; Leather ; Rubber

Measures

Höhe ohne Kofferdeckel/ Height without case lid: 10,5 cm

Width

29.50 cm

Depth

28.00 cm

Inventory number

14560

Description

Typewriter of the company A.-G. formerly Seidel&Naumann, type Erika No. 5 with the serial number 801867/5 and hebrew keyboard

Provenance

Formerly Institutum Iudaicum of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen. The 'Erika 5', which is dated into the 30s, seems to be a special production from 1939. The University of Tübingen was offered such a typewriter (type Erika) with Hebrew types in a letter dated January 22, 1942, estimated at the value of 231 RM. The Jewish Institute ordered it. The letter comes from the Mannheim Police Headquarters, whose Department of Jewish Property utilised the stolen property of Jews expelled from Mannheim.

Published since

23.01.2020