1958 Remington Letter-Riter Deluxe #LT3718300
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-06-2025 at 09:15AM
Last Edit: 02-06-2025 at 09:19AM
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I don't usually get excited about Remingtons from this era for some reason, but I found this one at a thrift shop in November 2023 and it had such nice rubber that I couldn't pass it up. I discovered a ribbon drive problem that was easily solved by cleaning the mechanism, and once I installed a new ribbon I loved the way that it typed. Noteworthy on this one was the plastic ribbon cover (the rest of the body was still metal). The machine still had a solid, confident feel to it.
Sold November 2023.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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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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