1958 Olympia Splendid 33 #95-225308
Status: Sightings
Hunter: BenJoe Markland (BenJoeM)
Created: 11-12-2026 at 11:15PM
Last Edit: 11-12-2026 at 11:15PM
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Description:
Olympia Splendid 33, about 1958 to 1959, cream smooth paint, Swedish keyboard, with a Stockholm agent's nameplate on the back. Pica, 10 pitch, paper scale to 90. Serial 95-225308 is below the earliest 1959 Splendid 33 logged here (95-237431), so this is early production. A client machine, serviced on my bench in October 2026 and returned to its owner.
Found on the bench: the ribbon vibrator lifted but would not drop back. It had been bent inward by an old knock and was binding.
Work done on the bench:
- Ribbon vibrator straightened with flat pliers; lifts and returns freely
- Platen removed, lightly sanded and cleaned; it measured 91 Shore A, so the original stayed
- Feed rollers cleaned
- Mainspring and escapement flushed and oiled where needed
- Typebars flushed and blown out, not oiled, per the Olympia manual
- Rust removed from the frame screws
- New felt in both side panels and on the frame underside
- Case lining re-glued
- New black ribbon on the original spools
Serviced by Slow Letter Co., Syracuse, Utah. https://slowletterco.com
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