1929 Corona 4 #1P00457

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Roger C (RogerTDB3)
Created: 10-21-2025 at 11:44AM
Last Edit: 10-21-2025 at 11:45AM

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A gift from my darling mother. A few idosyncracies, but will I work as well at 96?

Missing spools and spool covers. I fitted some standard plastic ribbon spools by reaming out the center hole a bit with a rotary tool. They fit snugly and it seems entirely functional.

The space bar is broken (not by me!) but repaired pretty well (not by me either!) Someone electrical-taped a square wooden dowel to the underside as a splint.

The case is missing the button on the latch that makes it latch.

The carriage return lever doesn't stay upright, so I ziptied it, which is functional but also forces me into double-space lines. I think there might be a missing bracket or spring here, but it's less of a problem than it sounds like.

It requires a pretty firm hand to type well, but that probably suits some folk.

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The case is showing some wear but still does its job.

The latch on the case -- the lower hole should have a metal button for latching.

The underside of the lid has quite a bit more going on than I was expecting.

The machine would normally be used while sat in the bottom of its case, I would think.

No reason to use a two-colour ribbon on this, but it's what I had handy.

The plain old black version, with nothing fancy going on.

The small black zip-tie that's holding the carriage return lever up so that it doesn't collide with the ribbon spool.

The "repaired" space bar. Works just fine.

The back. The two paper support arms work well.

The underside, showing the splinted space bar.

Serial number 1P00457 which places it in Jan-Feb of 1929.

Hunter: Roger C (RogerTDB3)

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Born to type, forced to collect. Last seen haunting Western Canadian thrift shops.