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1947 Smith Corona Super Speed Serial # 1A2036070-11 1947 Smith Corona Super Speed typewriter, Serial # 1A2036070-11 Zachary Thompson's 1947 Smith Corona Super Speed typewriter. 2021-08-09 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Zachary Thompson: 1947 Smith Corona Super Speed Serial # 1A2036070-11 Found at C & S Supply in Mankato, MN by my wife's uncle in the 1980s, and given to me in the Autumn of 2015. The dealer badge suggests a shop now called General Office Products, founded 1963, but there could have been another "Office Machines Sales & Service" in St. Paul at that time. Someone carved on the inside of the shell: "CR 7/22/47" (which I take as this machine's birthday) and "MN0070100MK22370" which could have been an inventory number. Has always run perfectly well, even after 30 years in basement storage. Pica typeface.

1947 Smith Corona Super Speed #1A2036070-11

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Zachary Thompson (zkthompson)
Created: 08-09-2021 at 01:11PM
Last Edit: 08-09-2021 at 01:15PM


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Found at C & S Supply in Mankato, MN by my wife's uncle in the 1980s, and given to me in the Autumn of 2015. The dealer badge suggests a shop now called General Office Products, founded 1963, but there could have been another "Office Machines Sales & Service" in St. Paul at that time. Someone carved on the inside of the shell: "CR 7/22/47" (which I take as this machine's birthday) and "MN0070100MK22370" which could have been an inventory number. Has always run perfectly well, even after 30 years in basement storage. Pica typeface.

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Hunter: Zachary Thompson (zkthompson)

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