1957 Smith Corona Silent Super #5T 395590X
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Big Dog (Bigdog)
Created: 07-25-2024 at 07:31AM
Last Edit: 07-25-2024 at 10:46AM
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Description:
Meet Joe (picked up outside Trader Joe’s / the same day Joe Biden withdrew / watched Joe van Cleave SS episodes in lieu of the news)
Dug this up locally by private sale. It was a full circle moment for me when the seller mentioned she’d acquired this machine in order to teach her kids to type before it sat in a closet while the kids grew up into twenty-somethings. The very same reason motivated my first entry into the world of manual typewriters, albeit walking away with a 1938 Smith Corona Sterling that was definitely not for little hands. This machine completes my collection* - each having a matching pair and all being green except the first.
*Somewhere, my husband is rolling his eyes.
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Hunter: Big Dog (Bigdog)
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Points: 106
If I were a typewriter, I'd have German engineering, an Australian work ethic and a couple of stray Russian letters on my keyboard. In other words, my doggy DNA test claims I'm 75% German Shepherd, 15% Aussie Cattle Dog, 10% Husky. Not quite as advertised by the SPCA - a "Shepherd/Alaskan Malamute mix" - like the hidden gem of a machine described as purely decorative or, worse still, for parts. Like some typewriters, I know how it feels to be old, discarded and in bad shape before being joyfully re-discovered by owners who give me pride of place and tell everyone else how lucky they are to have scored a special guy like me. 100% Good Boy.
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