1937 Olympia Progress #150751
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Sergei Viktorovich (Sergei110)
Created: 01-25-2017 at 05:00AM
Last Edit: 01-25-2017 at 05:06AM
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Description:
Great "Progress" by "Olympia".
This typewriter is differ from later "Olympia"s not only externally, but also by the feelings of typing.
It has a colour selector, three-stage line spacing.
Top of typewriter is configured not as a folding cover, and a rotary wings.
The body is not stamped, but cast.
On the front side there is an interesting decal "OLYMPIA Typewriter Company". It gives me a reason to believe, that is an export "Olympia".
The original layout is QWERTY with "@", many fractional nembers and signs of dollar, the yen and the pound, but now it converted to a cyrillic layout. Original keys are covered with cyrillic stencils and rings.
In general, this is the most pleasant black portable "Olympia", I have ever senn before.
In all senses and parameters it likely not a later versions of a portable "Olympia"s, but a "Kappel VA" typewriter.
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Hunter: Sergei Viktorovich (Sergei110)
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Hi everyone!
I'm Sergei, I was made in Russia)
A psychologist, a collector of all sorts of vintage junk, typewriters, alarm clocks, and so on.
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I wouldn't call myself a HUNTER - I just love typewriters, use them and collect some of them.
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