1949 Smith Corona Sterling #5A160116
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mark Petersen (totallyyourtype)
Created: 11-01-2016 at 06:08PM
Last Edit: 11-01-2016 at 06:08PM
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Description:
This was a well spent $25 I almost didn't spend because these machines are pretty unremarkable. Except of course when you find a really good one like this one. Drawband discount, easy fix, and then it was a really great typewriter I expect to hang on to and use for many years.
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Hunter: Mark Petersen (totallyyourtype)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 2142
I am an aspiring novelist and avid typewriter enthusiast from the New River Valley in Virginia. I am a proud Virginia Tech graduate with an education in creative writing. I use typewriters for all my writing and am working on a novel. I also do street poetry. I often can be found writing on one of my machines in downtown Blacksburg and enjoying a drink.
You can email me at totallyyourtype@gmail.com
You can mail me at Mark Petersen / PO Box 6683 / Christiansburg, VA 24068-6683
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