That is peculiar. Brief internet search turned up a Reddit post where someone had a sample of typed text with the same odd typography: https://www.reddit.com/r/

That is peculiar. Brief internet search turned up a Reddit post where someone had a sample of typed text with the same odd typography: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/s/f2CIY0TCm3 https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/s/f2CIY0TCm3 The suggestion that it may have been a striker from a bilingual - cyrillic typewriter that was mixed in is an interesting possibility; someone transcribing diplomatic telegrams in WWII may indeed have need of access to Cyrillic typewriters…