1956 Smith Corona Silent Super #5T 417472X
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-12-2025 at 07:28AM
Last Edit: 02-12-2025 at 08:25AM
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Purchased in February 2022. I wanted a green Silent-Super to go with the Alpine Blue one I had purchased earlier. This one had really hard rubber on the platen and the rear feet were melted to the case: an "attic machine". I cleaned it up, serviced a few things, installed new feet and got the platen resurfaced by JJ Short, and it's a great typewriter now. Pica typeface.
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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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