1955 Smith Corona Silent Super #5T375777X
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 01-31-2025 at 12:02PM
Last Edit: 01-31-2025 at 12:07PM
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Description:
I can rarely pass up a nice 5-series Silent-Super. I found this 1955 Desert Sand version at a local antique/salvage/junk mall and decided to bring it home to bring it back to its former glory. A previous owner, R. Freer, must have been paranoid about losing it: their name was on two places on the typewriter and on both the base and the lid for the case!
Sold April 2024.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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I "accidentally" started collecting typwriters in the fall of 2020. After my daughter got one cheap at a junk shop, and hearing that she intended to use it to write some old fashioned snail-mail letters to friends, I decided to get "a" typewriter myself to do the same. The first one was a real lucky break: a pristine 1950 Smith-Corona Sterling in perfect condition. From there I got interested in other brands and in refurbishing dirty and forgotten machines. I've had 65+ typewriters at this point, passing many along to excited new owners to keep my collection hovering around 20 machines.
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