1944 Olympia Robust #502772
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Kristians Luhaers (clc)
Created: 03-04-2020 at 01:18PM
Last Edit: 03-04-2020 at 01:25PM
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Description:
This one, salvaged from a junkyard in the countryside, has an interesting history - brought in Latvia by German troops during WWII, later abandoned in Courland Pocket near Kuldiga. During Soviet occupation revamped with Russian keyboard and type slugs to be used in a collective farm (kolkhoz). Used until the late 80s. Photographed as found.
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Hunter: Kristians Luhaers (clc)
Kristians Luhaers's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 323
TYPEWRITERS...
Doesn't they look sexy to you? Such a number of different shapes, forms and colors.... All those complicated and not so complicated mechanisms, levers and arms, gears and sprockets... how they became alive and start dancing at your fingertip punches...
It started on December 2015 when I bought my second typewriter... Beaten, damaged, dusty... I took it apart, cleaned, repaired. Since then it became as an obsession... Now there are more than dozen.
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