Frolio 5 (1923)
SKU: A32b
Frolio 5
First year of production: 1920
Company: Gundka Werke, Brandenburg, Germany
The Gundka Frolio 5 was made by Gundka (Greppert & Chalice) Werk GmbH in Brandenburg Havel. It was designed in 1923 by one of Germany’s leading typewriter inventors, Paul Muchajer, of Charlottenburg, Berlin, who assigned half of his US patent rights to Gundka.
The company employed about 500 workers. Over 80 000 of this inexpensive typewriter were produced. The typewriter was made under several names: Frolio, Scripta, Perlita, Gepro.