1958 Olympia SM3 #1314449
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brenton Beck (ProblemUnit)
Created: 08-27-2023 at 05:22PM
Last Edit: 08-27-2023 at 05:23PM
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Description:
Let me paint a picture for you:
Your significant other goes to the second floor of an antique store about an hour and change west of where you live, and lets out an audible "OH!" because there was an entire shelf full of typewriters, knowing I was going to look at all of them to see if they were coming home with us, and this was the first case she recognized as it has a rough, but functional Olympia "panzer" case, and incidentally, was the only one that came home with us that day. I hadn't even noticed at the time, the local sales badge on the left side.
It's textured green, it types just fine, and it's Script no 75. After wiping it off and replacing the usual body washers for an Olympia of this age, it got a green single color ribbon as I felt it deserved it.
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Hunter: Brenton Beck (ProblemUnit)
Brenton Beck's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 584
Banking industry Technical Trainer, music festival operations extraordinaire, electronic music DJ, and general fix-it by trade.
Collector of vintage Apple, Macintosh, & Commodore, as well as typewriters and adding machines.
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