Ephemera & Accessories

In addition to Oliver typewriters, I also collect Oliver-related items which are exhibited below. A general rule of thumb I follow is that the item must be specifically branded as Oliver or a related name variant. For example, typewriter desks manufactured by the Dearborn Company of Chicago were sold by The Oliver Typewriter Company, but not branded with the Oliver name. Therefore, these are not contenders for the collection.

Have any Oliver ephemera or accessories for sale? Please reach me at contact@olivertypewriters.com.

Trade Catalogs

Instruction Manuals & Cards

Postcards

The original Oliver factory in Epworth, Iowa

The original Oliver office at 961 Main St., Dubuque, Iowa (the brick building on the right side with the side chimney)

The Oliver factory in Woodstock, Illinois

Workers leave the factory at noon for lunch

The Oliver Typewriter Band

Charlie Sargent in his office at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan

Clarksburg, West Virginia

Officer Printype on display at the Oliver factory

Traveling salesmen

Independent typewriter repair

Oliver No. 5 advertisement

Canadian Oliver No. 3 by the
Linotype Company of Montreal

Accessories

Commemorative pins given to John Persson for five and ten years of service

Poster stamp advertising a
German office equipment dealer

Officer Printype poster stamp from the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Fransisco

Oliver No. 3 printing block

Advertising
pin-back button

Ribbon commemorating
The Oliver Typewriter Company’s
Third Annual Picnic

Oliver typewriter crate

Oliver No. 5
shipping crate

Oliver No. 9
shipping crates

Oliver typewriter crate
Oliver typewriter crate
U-bolt clamp kit with bolts, washers, nuts, and springs
bolt wrench

Hardware and square-slotted driver used for securing the Oliver inside its shipping crate

Leather traveling case
Oliver No. 5 in leather traveling case
Dust cover

Dust cover

Leather traveling case

Office case
Office case
Office case
Office case

Metal office cases

Cleaning kit

Cleaning kit

Japanese ivory brush

Japanese ivory-handled
Oliver brush

British Oliver cleaning kit box

Oil bottle with cardboard box and corkscrew

Oliver oil

Various Revilo advertisements included in cleaning kits

Opened vesta case

Vesta case

Paperweight
Paperweight

Paperweights

1905 Manager’s Conference mug
1905 Manager’s Conference mug

The Oliver Typewriter Company Managers and Assistants Annual Conference 1905 Banquet commemorative mug

1905 Manager's Conference mug
Teaspoon depicting The Oliver Typewriter Factory

Teaspoon depicting
The Oliver Typewriter Factory

Top-down view of ashtray and matchbox holder

The Oliver Ashtray and Matchbox Holder bearing Do!, the company’s motto of 1910

Oliver No. 5 with copyholder attachment

The Oliver Copyholder installed
on an Oliver No. 5

Oliver No. 2 on Oliver typing table

An Oliver No. 2 on
The Oliver table