1942 Continental Standard #947732
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Vlastimil Novak (Schrei112)
Created: 09-21-2016 at 12:22PM
Last Edit: 10-22-2016 at 08:32AM
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Description:
Continental. Big Continental. Not the biggest, but really some piece of machinery, though. In my humble opinion, older Continentals were made better, but it is still well made. According to google, "conto" and "contos" comes from Portugal, so if the writer was sold there... I don't know, but it looks like the machine was adapted to Czech later. It is working like new!
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Hunter: Vlastimil Novak (Schrei112)
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If you want something, contact me: Vlastimilnovak12@gmail.com
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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