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1925 Olivetti M20 Serial # 2526853 1925 Olivetti M20 typewriter, Serial # 2526853 fausto tomesani's 1925 Olivetti M20 typewriter. 2025-06-08 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of fausto tomesani: 1925 Olivetti M20 Serial # 2526853 This is a Olivetti M20, from 1925.
It’s the second typewriter made by Olivetti, after the M1.
The production of this typewriter started in 1920, after the interruption of production for the war conversion of the plants during the 1st World War, and continued till 1933.
Olivetti sold around 81000 typewriters of this model.
Not bad.
The typewriter is on a wood basis, with two handles.
It has a keyboard with the QWERTY Italian layout, 43 buttons with 86 typing characters.
Olivetti produced two versions of the M20, very similar.
M20 typewriter could have carriages with 90, 120, 160, 200 and 230 spaces.
This one has 90 spaces for a standard A4 sheet of paper, and this model has 230 spaces.
It seems useless to have such a long carriage, but it was common to use protocol format sheets of paper, very large.
It was used by lawyers for contracts, etc.
This one is the first version of M20 with the knob in brass.
It’s from 1925.
The age of plastic was coming!
The serial numbers follows the numbering after the Olivetti M1.
Till 1926, the first 2 numbers indicate the year.
It’s from 1925.
After the 1926 there is only the serial number, as you see here in this M20 typewriter from 1928.
With this model Olivetti produced more than 80000 pieces.
The M20 typewriter was very robust and durable, if you see this spare parts catalogue of 1950, it’s still selling the spares for the Olivetti M20, a typewriter of 20 or 30 year before.
It doesn’t happen now, you can’t find the spares for an electronic device of 30 years ago!

1925 Olivetti M20 #2526853

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Created: 06-02-2025 at 10:05AM
Last Edit: 06-08-2025 at 06:22AM

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This is a Olivetti M20, from 1925.
It’s the second typewriter made by Olivetti, after the M1.
The production of this typewriter started in 1920, after the interruption of production for the war conversion of the plants during the 1st World War, and continued till 1933.
Olivetti sold around 81000 typewriters of this model.
Not bad.
The typewriter is on a wood basis, with two handles.
It has a keyboard with the QWERTY Italian layout, 43 buttons with 86 typing characters.
Olivetti produced two versions of the M20, very similar.
M20 typewriter could have carriages with 90, 120, 160, 200 and 230 spaces.
This one has 90 spaces for a standard A4 sheet of paper, and this model has 230 spaces.
It seems useless to have such a long carriage, but it was common to use protocol format sheets of paper, very large.
It was used by lawyers for contracts, etc.
This one is the first version of M20 with the knob in brass.
It’s from 1925.
The age of plastic was coming!
The serial numbers follows the numbering after the Olivetti M1.
Till 1926, the first 2 numbers indicate the year.
It’s from 1925.
After the 1926 there is only the serial number, as you see here in this M20 typewriter from 1928.
With this model Olivetti produced more than 80000 pieces.
The M20 typewriter was very robust and durable, if you see this spare parts catalogue of 1950, it’s still selling the spares for the Olivetti M20, a typewriter of 20 or 30 year before.
It doesn’t happen now, you can’t find the spares for an electronic device of 30 years ago!

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