1946 Hermes Baby #5025293

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
Created: 07-23-2023 at 05:36PM
Last Edit: 07-30-2023 at 06:57AM

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Purchased at a consignment shop. It's so very dirty, typebars are bent in numerous places, there's a bit of a crack in the right ribbon cover, glitter was glued to the backspace and margin release keys, and keys are nearly illegible in places due to years of gunk... but function is intact. Will get a typeface sample after intense cleanup... the poor bottom looks to have felt in it, but it's just dust bunnies, and I could barely make out the ç it's so gunked up...
QWERTZ keyboard, tracks to Hermes' Swiss-German (5504-B) keyboard.

Updated with typeface sample. Still not 100% happy with the J and Q positioning but at least they strike the platen now! Will continue tweaking.

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Poor case, so beat up. But functional.

Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)

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First typewriter bought in 6/2023, now at over 30 in my collection with most recorded in the galleries. There's a special place in my heart for Smith-Coronas, blue typewriters, and typewriters from 1964 (my parents' birth year). Prefer manuals to electrics, portables to ultra portables or desktops, but will head home with anything if it's cheap enough and functional/repairable. I've successfully gifted typewriters to two siblings, a best friend, and an in-law. Keeping up with my lifelong tradition of making and repairing by hand. When not typing or working on a typewriter, I'm often reading, gardening (vegetable), preserving harvests (canning, dehydrating, freezing), knitting, sewing, writing letters/short stories, or shooting film photography. I like the slow, analog life.