1952 Groma Gromina #507030
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
Created: 01-31-2024 at 10:42AM
Last Edit: 01-31-2024 at 10:47AM
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Description:
Purchased from a seller in Spain in January 2024. German QWERZ keyboard. Striking deep maroon shell, with black keys. The typewriter came in its original green case. The Gromina was only produced for about five years, leading into the production of the Kolibri models. The first Grominas--manufactured from 1959 into 1953--sport gull-wing covers over the ribbon spools,thus joining the Gossen Tippa and the Rooy portable as early 1950s ultraportable machines that copied that popular Hermes Baby feature.
This machine is in excellent cosmetic and mechanical condition, but it needs a fresh ribbon. I will service it, then add a typeface sample.
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Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
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Points: 1430
I'm a semi-retired software/web developer with a now eight-year-old grandson, Jaxon, who is crazy about typewriters. In late 2021, at age six, Jaxon got a Montgomery Ward Escort 350 portable from Goodwill that absolutely fascinated him. He still takes it everywhere, and remains especially pleased that it has a key for the number one. He considers his Escort to be our best typer, but I think that honor goes to our second generation 1969 Hermes 3000. Jaxon's got me hooked, and now--between us--we have a growing collection of writing machines. Together, we've set up and equipped a small workshop area and, whenever we get the chance, we clean and perform minor repairs on our typewriters. Now that Jaxon's reading and writing skills are steadily improving, he rarely needs anyone to tell him how to spell the words he wants to type.
Newer to typewriter collecting than Jaxon, I am particularly interested in ultraportables and portables, and have developed a special fondness for Gossen, Hermes, and Rooy machines. I am also very interested in any brand/model with a HCESAR keyboard layout. A collector-at-heart--I have long collected West Indian fiction (40+ years) and Haitian art (30+ years)--I am old enough to have owned and regularly used typewriters back in the pre-PC days.
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