1959 Smith Corona Silent Super #5T 682407X

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 11-30-2025 at 04:05PM
Last Edit: 11-30-2025 at 04:08PM

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This is my 1959 Smith-Corona Silent Super portable typewriter, S/N 5T 682407X. It is in the Desert Sand color scheme. I purchased this machine at the Haverhill Antique Market, Haverhill, MA, on January 28, 2007, for the princely sum of $15.00 plus $0.75 sales tax. It has not been serviced, and one or two keys are a little sticky, but it basically runs pretty well. It could use a little type alignment. Just recently, I installed a new set of feet purchased from Type Space in Portland, OR. This typewriter was owned by a student at Springfield College, Springfield, MA at one time, as indicated by the property fob attached to the holiday case that came with the machine.

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Typewriter with its case.

Right.

Left.

Back.

Carriage detail.

Top.

Serial number.

Typing sample.

Property fob.

Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)

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My interest in typewriters started in 1997, when I was in graduate school at the University of Georgia. I purchased and read Darryl Rehr's book, joined ETC, and started reaching out to known collectors. I had several email interchanges with Richard Polt dating from that period. I also bought some of my first machines from Bob Aubert, and visited him at his home twice. After marriage and relocation to New England, I continued visiting antique shops and eBay, until other priorities put my typewriter hobby on hiatus around 2008. I still have my collection of around 57 machines, and now I have a renewed interest in getting some of them in good working and cosmetic order.