1958 Olympia SF #88139
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-07-2025 at 11:50AM
Last Edit: 02-07-2025 at 11:53AM
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Description:
Nice Olympia SF in yellow with burgundy keys I purchased for an embarassingly low price in January 2023. In pretty clean condition, but it didn't come with a case. Pice typeface. I like the typing action on the SF: it feels spritely to me.
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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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