1959 Smith Corona Deluxe Secretarial #6B3081243-11
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 08-31-2014 at 09:04AM
Last Edit: 11-22-2017 at 10:42PM
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Description:
It's almost impossible to find any information about this model. One small newspaper ad from a dealer is dated January 1959.
What is deluxe about it? As far as I can see, only the glossy paint and the clever little plastic lens that helps you read the scale under the printing point.
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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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