Why anyone would pay that much for a Brother - of any vintage - I cannot say, but that auction was the exception. That said, an eBay seller did recently auction a Brother De Luxe for $620. The highest sale price I’ve seen for a 3B is about $400. Obviously, the 3B is rare, but $1,500 rare? I acquired mine - with fiber case - for around $200, which is at the high end of what I would pay for most any machine. Lately, I e-mailed an Etsy seller asking him why he was offering a Remington 3B typewriter for $1,500. Despite being old and “rare,” there are practical limits to how much a typewriter is worth. In the interest of full disclosure, if someone were to offer me $8,000 for my Dayton Portable Typewriter, I’d take that offer in an instant.
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