1942 Continental Silenta #762563
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Vlastimil Novak (Schrei112)
Created: 06-07-2017 at 05:04AM
Last Edit: 06-08-2023 at 02:42PM
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The Continental Silenta. A huge load of the excellent typewriter and a six-hour bus trip for it :D
I bought it from a fellow collector. He was moving from the house to the flat and Silenta did not make the cut. It was in his possession for forty years and that is why it is in such fabulous condition.
What else? It is really silent! I was surprised by how quiet it is. The traditional typewriter is faster, but this noise comfort is priceless!
I wonder why they made just about 70 thousand of them... I get that this is more complicated and can be easily damaged by too fast writing, but the silence!! An average Silenta with a short carriage is better than this, because a wide carriage has bigger kinetic energy, thus more noise.
It is a marvelous piece of engineering. Something that was maybe meant for big success, but war and all issues of Wanderer Werke put an end to this great machine.
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Hunter: Vlastimil Novak (Schrei112)
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I am a passionate amateur mechanic from the Czech Republic, and I have always mesmerized by the complexity of typewriters since my childhood. The first one (Zeta 1501) was just a toy to me in the beginning, but by every year I got older I got also better at understanding how it is working and how to disassemble it and assemble it again. The second one was Ideal DZ33 which started my love for antique machines with all the chrome and glass keys.
My machines range from mint ones through a majority of well-used machines to piles of rust that I have repaired to be typewriters again which is a lot of fun for me.
I am quite obsessed with the beauty and technical genius of standard Continentals. I love how they were producing one model of a typewriter from 1904 to the '50s with constant changes in design and my goal is to collect every decal and every major variation of them.
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