1961 Torpedo 18a #1224581
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Nick T (schreibstang)
Created: 05-27-2013 at 10:28PM
Last Edit: 09-09-2016 at 09:24PM
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Description:
Script elite type
US keyboard
This was my first script typewriter and it looks almost like my second Torpedo, though it has a standard keyboard. It came to me in an Olivetti Studio 44 case as a gift from a prominent collector.
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Hunter: Nick T (schreibstang)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 8355
I started collecting typewriters in 2006, but what started it all was using my mother's Brother Student-Riter XL1 in 2004. The next year I received my grandma's Smith-Corona Silent, which was enough to hold me over for a little while but eventually led to an obsession with manual portable typewriters.
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