1893 Blickensderfer 5 #5095
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jonathan Mitchell (Ouzelum)
Created: 02-06-2017 at 09:57AM
Last Edit: 02-08-2017 at 12:06PM
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Description:
Found it at an antique store in PA. It was missing the spring underneath it, but after replacing that it works fine. Very slow, but i've written notes and a few pages through it.
The serial number is 5025, which seems like a rather early model to just stumble upon in working condition, but whoever originally owned it took amazing care of it.
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Hunter: Jonathan Mitchell (Ouzelum)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 230
A writer and beginner collector/restorer of typewriters. I'd always written a few pages a day, been sort of a habit for a number of years now, and I saw a few typewriters in movies and loved the sound they made, so I decided to buy one to see what it was like.
Ended up with a Olivetti Lettera 22, and after writing about a hundred pages with it, I was hooked.
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