Lewis Carroll's typewriter takes £6500
A WELL-PRESERVED James Hammond typewriter from the 1880s is itself a rare item, but the example offered for sale by Gildings in Market Harborough in Leicestershire on February 21 attracted greater interest on account of its first owner, Lewis Carroll (1832-98).
It appears Carroll (aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) had acquired his Hammond No.1 on May 3, 1888. A di…