What is much more striking is the address on the label.

It is typewritten and, as you say, typed very badly.

Do you know anything about typewriters ?" "Very little." "Then you do not recognise the machine?
Well, this label was typed with a Blickensderfer--an excellent machine, but not the form most commonly selected for the rough work of a manufacturer's office; but we will let that pass.

The important point is this: the Blickensderfer Company make several forms of machine, the smallest and lightest of which is the literary, specially designed for the use of journalists and men of letters.

Now this label was typed with the literary machine, or, at least, with the literary typewheel; which is really a very remarkable circumstance indeed." "How do you know that ?" I asked.
"By this asterisk, which has been written by mistake, the inexpert operator having pressed down the figure lever instead of the one for capitals.