195X Continental Standard #2200264
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
Created: 10-21-2024 at 05:05AM
Last Edit: 10-21-2024 at 05:07AM
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Description:
Fixed this up for a thrift store and traded it for another machine in their collection. Platen is hardened and the drawband had to be replaced. The old Finnish Standard keyboard layout and Elite typeface. It felt a bit different compared to earlier Continentals, but still a very nice machine to use.
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Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
Jerry Himes's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 1038
I have been looking for ways to spend less time on electronic devices, and because of this I started doing my writing and translation work with pens and pencils, and now on typewriters as well. I have noticed that adding typewriters to the process has been beneficial to the quality of the text, plus it's just more fun this way.
I have started selling and giving away some of my machines now that I have figured out which ones I want to keep. Some people have asked me for working typewriters, so I have been on the lookout for machines purely for that purpose as well. As fun and instructive as it has been, soon it is time to finish this collecting and tinkering and move back to my original intention: writing. I hope.
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