1958 Optima Elite 3 #1037732
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mark Petersen (totallyyourtype)
Created: 12-08-2013 at 11:31PM
Last Edit: 08-07-2023 at 05:44PM
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Description:
This machine was on craigslist for a while and the seller kept dropping the price lower and lower and then I snagged it for $20. Amazing condition, it looks like new. It types ok but not great. I think having been made in communist conditions affected the quality of these machines. Still really cool to have one though.
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Hunter: Mark Petersen (totallyyourtype)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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I am an aspiring novelist and avid typewriter enthusiast from the New River Valley in Virginia. I am a proud Virginia Tech graduate with an education in creative writing. I use typewriters for all my writing and am working on a novel. I also do street poetry. I often can be found writing on one of my machines in downtown Blacksburg and enjoying a drink.
You can email me at totallyyourtype@gmail.com
You can mail me at Mark Petersen / PO Box 6683 / Christiansburg, VA 24068-6683
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