1956 Olympia SF #5-2999
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
Created: 11-21-2021 at 10:16AM
Last Edit: 03-26-2022 at 12:36AM
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Description:
Here is another very early SF, serial number 2999, meaning that it is the 1999th produced.
The color scheme is specific of very first SF produced, as few other details, such as the margin setting mechanism.
Specimen sample will follow.
Typeface Specimen:
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Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
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Interested in historic motoring and vintage cars, I received a typewriter as a bonus when I bought and old off-road car. The previous owner had found somewhere a typewriter produced for the German army and when he sold me the car he gave me the typewriter too. As I learned later, it was a1961 Olympia SM7 Robust..
Of the typewriters I value more character than perfection, the signs that time has left and the stories - or fragments of stories - of those who used them ...
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