1956 Olympia SM3 #838365
Status: My Collection
Hunter: David Wing (deedub)
Created: 11-08-2016 at 12:51PM
Last Edit: 11-08-2016 at 12:52PM
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Description:
Lovely Burgundy Hammertone with dark chocolate keys. Sports the italic pica typeface. I am doubly lucky to find a rare color combined with a rare type.
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Hunter: David Wing (deedub)
David Wing's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 241
Living in So. Calif. USA. Bought a mint SC flattop at an estate sale for $5 some years ago, and enjoyed the tactility of typing after using computers since 1968, the punch-card era. I gave it to my mother-in-law to exercise her arthritic fingers. After she passed away last year I found it among her things. I wanted something newer, so bought an Olympia SM3. I am not a collector, but seem to have acquired more than 30 machines since March 2016, and have passed several on to family and friends, and bartered with others.
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