Acme Type Machine Company approaches each typewriter as both a working instrument and an object of industrial design history. Since 2016, we have carefully selected and restored fine typewriters for writers, collectors and institutions around the world.

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Every machine is restored in our workshop to its original factory operating standard. Mechanisms are cleaned, repaired, adjusted and tested; worn functional parts are renewed where necessary, while original finishes, materials and evidence of the machine’s history are conserved wherever possible.

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Our aim is not to make an old typewriter just look pretty, but to recover the precision, reliability and character its maker intended. It is an approach based on careful selection, informed restoration, and hard-earned expertise.

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Every Acme typewriter comes with the Acme Seal—our "artists's signature"— attached discretely to the mechanism. Our Seal is a permanent indication that your typewriter was restored in our workshop.