1947 Underwood SS #11-6243882

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Javier Vazquez del Olmo (Javi)
Created: 08-28-2022 at 07:05AM
Last Edit: 08-28-2022 at 07:05AM

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This typewriter came along with my third Iberia. Not my favourite Underwood model, but it's reasonably well preserved, and it can be brought back to life with little effort. In fact, The only thing that prevents it from typing is the lack of ribbon, because everything is OK but in need of some deep cleaning.

The most notable features of this unit are the keytops and the wooden spacebar. Looks like the rejuvenation process didn't go exactly as planned... You know that feeling when you're doing something and while you're at it there's a dark cloud hovering over your mind and a voice repeating that this is going bad, bad... and since you have one leg deep into the quicksand, why not putting the other one and get the fully disastrous results? I bet something like that happened at some point with this typewriter.

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Hunter: Javier Vazquez del Olmo (Javi)

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The first typewriter I saw was my grandpa´s Olivetti Linea 98 at the office. It was just a curio for me. Then I was given a Nakajima, which I didn´t use and my grandfather took it from me because it was easier to handle than the bulky Linea 98. Now I own that typewriter, and I started a little collection in Valladolid, Spain. The Nakajima, which is "my" typewriter only returned home in 2017, almost 20 years later, when he wanted a better typewriter.

A collection that started small grew into something bigger, a nuisace for my family and a great source of satisfaction for me.