1957 Smith Corona Electric Portable #5TE134582
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-06-2025 at 09:55AM
Last Edit: 02-06-2025 at 12:06PM

Description:
I've primarily been interested in manual typewriters on my collecting journey, but 5-series Smith-Coronas are some of my favorites, so I had to have the electric version. Purchased in June 2022, this one was quite dirty and looked like it might have been stored in an attic (thus the warped spacebar). I plugged it in and typed about 3 letters before one of the belts snapped, but after replacing them with o-rings, it worked great.
Sold to another collector November 2023.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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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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