1957 Erika 10 #1832136
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Kristians Luhaers (clc)
Created: 04-11-2016 at 02:05AM
Last Edit: 04-11-2016 at 02:20AM
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Description:
An ebay purchase - so called "Dachbodenfund". Seller has no idea does it work or not. Well, it didn't. Arrived dusty, with jammed and broken carriage and without a case. Seller put up only one blurry picture, but the price (1 EUR) was worth risking. Took me about a week to fix it. Now it works as buttered.
The look of this "black beast" somehow reminds me the soviet Typhoon class nuclear submarines. When you press the knob down on the right side of body, the hatch opens... ready to launch a nuclear missile.
Scarry... :)
Typeface Specimen:
Links:
- Nick's Minty fresh Erika
- Erika 10 on Typewriter Review blog
- Robert's Erika Modell 10
- Erika 10 rebranded as Optima Humber 88
Photos:
Hunter: Kristians Luhaers (clc)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 323
TYPEWRITERS...
Doesn't they look sexy to you? Such a number of different shapes, forms and colors.... All those complicated and not so complicated mechanisms, levers and arms, gears and sprockets... how they became alive and start dancing at your fingertip punches...
It started on December 2015 when I bought my second typewriter... Beaten, damaged, dusty... I took it apart, cleaned, repaired. Since then it became as an obsession... Now there are more than dozen.
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