1959 Smith Corona Skyriter #3Y 239974
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Linda Au (Austruck)
Created: 12-20-2015 at 01:49PM
Last Edit: 09-14-2016 at 11:00PM
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Description:
Got this lovely baby at an online auction when a lovely older lady in my church downsized to move into a nursing home. Bought it sight unseen (the online photo just showed the tan leather case zipped up), for under $20. Was tickled to see the lovely Skyriter inside.
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Hunter: Linda Au (Austruck)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 70
Humorist. Novelist. Scapegoat.
I'm happy to own 17 typewriters currently. Two are models from my childhood: a Royal Signet portable (my first typewriter when I was about 10), and an Underwood TM-5 (used in 9th grade typing class circa 1975).
I used my IBM Selectric II to win NaNoWriMo every year till it mysteriously bit the dust early in 2020. I use my Selectric I a lot since it fits perfectly on my antique typewriter desk. Some of the manuals are currently being used to type letters to new penpals who are all interested in reviving snail-mail letter writing.
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