1925 Erika 3 #67780
Status: My Collection
Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
Created: 02-23-2024 at 09:48PM
Last Edit: 02-27-2024 at 07:10AM
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My favorite classic, the folding Erika 3 a beast, and flings its slugs heavily towards the platen before their slapping back to their resting positions with a loud klop! (n.B. the paper bail that being absent in Erika 1 as well as the plethora of panel screws missing)
A good ha-ha.... In the instructions, the platen knob is "ebonite twirler" designated :)
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Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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Ja, I am happy a collector of Schreibmaschine to be, und to hunt them down like dogs for my collection to have. My erste Schreibmachine I have fondly remembered was an old American Royal portable -- 1930s? How I got this one, where it came from, I cannot recall -- und so on a QWERTY to type learnt. Happily, most of my Maschinen now have the QWERTZ, und so for the deutsche Maschinen mostly I look, though I do not despise the qualität-built amerikanischer Maschinen.
I not only am collecting, but I use each one in my epistolary endeavors. If the revolution is being typwritten, then we must be about our business typing.
Ich liebe meine Frau; ich liebe meinen Hund; ich liebe eine Erika. Warum? Ich liebe Worte, Qualität, und Präzision!
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