1960 R.C. Allen Visomatic #8-2163312 13
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 03-05-2014 at 03:43PM
Last Edit: 03-07-2014 at 04:05PM
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Description:
So many R.C. Allens have dull wrinkle paint that looks dingy, grimy, and foul. But this one is squeaky clean -- I think it was hardly used. The paint is smooth and the typewriter sports a plastic coating in front that's easily cleaned. This machine has a script typeface, which may account for the little use it got. It sure is a big and heavy device for producing dainty text. But I love it.
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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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