1944 Olympia 8 #755129
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Ollie Prochaska (fleatattoo)
Created: 11-11-2024 at 09:13PM
Last Edit: 11-11-2024 at 09:22PM
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Description:
Purchased from another collector in Maryland in November 2024. Unfortunately I know nothing about this machine's provenance. It has an unusual keyboard layout-- QWERTY, but with characters useful in German and Spanish. It includes an Ñ key, but no other accents for Spanish-language use. It also has an I-beam character, presumably used for copy editing.
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Hunter: Ollie Prochaska (fleatattoo)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 15
I have a modest collection I started as a teenager. I recently started actively collecting machines again and now I’m back up to about 20 machines.
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