1959 Optima P1 #257939
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 07-17-2014 at 09:45AM
Last Edit: 07-17-2014 at 09:46AM
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Description:
The final gasp (1957-59) of the old Olympia-Plana design. Still a great-looking little typer, though not a wonderful one to use.
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Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
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Obsessive typewriterist, creator of The Classic Typewriter Page in 1995, editor of ETCetera 2006-2012 & 2015-2019, blogger, author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century (2015). E-mail: polt@xavier.edu
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