Typewriter Tipp-Ex Tabs

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Overview

Small blue plastic box which stores the thin strips of correction paper

Historical information

Tippex correction strips, also known as correction paper, were specifically designed for correcting errors made while typing on a typewriter.
They were a thin white paper coated with a substance that, when typed over, would effectively erase the mistake.

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cwa-org-124-2025.214

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Material

Coated Paper

Plastic

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Tipp-ex, for correcting handwritten errors
Scratch out
20 tabs

Contextual information

The typewriter would be backspaced to the letter that was to be changed, the correction paper would be placed behind the ribbon, and the mistyped letter would be re-typed. The system only worked if the typewriter repositioned the re-typed letter in exactly the same place as originally typed, which could be problematic if returning to a previous line.

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Typewriter

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Last modified

Sunday, 12 July, 2026

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Busselton Historical Society