1933 Rheinmetall Portable #157130
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 05-05-2017 at 04:12PM
Last Edit: 05-05-2017 at 07:10PM
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Description:
Beautiful blue paint on this machine, although parts of it have yellowed a bit and started to crack. German QWERTY keyboard.
The mainspring was broken on this typewriter, but I was able to adapt a mainspring from an Olympia ultraportable.
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Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
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