1943 Olympia Plana #155.809
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Maxim Suravegin (Gardenmax)
Created: 09-17-2017 at 07:50AM
Last Edit: 09-17-2017 at 02:41PM
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Description:
OLYMPIA PLANA AND THE OPTIMA PLANA These two machines have exactly the same design of Johannes Krüger,..with its two spectacular folding "gull wing " ribbon covers and its ultra slim shape,...only that the Olympia was made in bakelite and the Optima in metall years later in the East Germany after WW2.
+ The Olympia Plana bakelite was made in 1943 and its serial number is 155.809.
+ The Optima Plana was made 10 years later,in 1953 and its serial number...229.052.
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Hunter: Maxim Suravegin (Gardenmax)
Maxim Suravegin's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 10044
Max. Live in Moscow. Russia.
Owner Typewriter Museum in Moscow
Typewriter collector. Father of 7 children, grandfather of 2.
4 dogs, 4 cats.
Start collect typewriters very late in September 2016.
Contact: gardenmax@yandex.ru
max@besttypewriter.com
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