1960 Smith Corona Electric Portable #5TE207601
Status: My Collection
Hunter: LaDonna Qualtieri (Sk8rcruz)
Created: 05-12-2023 at 03:28PM
Last Edit: 05-12-2023 at 03:28PM
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Description:
Local Craigslist find, one owner. Typeface No. 75 Artistic Script. It’s in dire need of a good cleaning but it powers on and works. I found the missing Caps key in the case but the lower tab rocker plastic is gone. Case is decent and has the key! The ribbon is bone-dry and I intend on having it cleaned and serviced before using it. I paid $200 and drove 10 minutes, a fair investment knowing I’ll put another hundred or more toward spiffing it up and maybe changing the electrical cord.
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Hunter: LaDonna Qualtieri (Sk8rcruz)
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I have many pen pals and correspond via handwritten and typed letters. I have a (painful) sitting disability and type while standing- UPDATE! I can also type on an ultraportable I set up on my bed. Typing and collecting machines with different typefaces keeps me busy and happily distracted from the difficulties in life-fountain pens, too, and I can write legibly, in cursive, while laying down. Join me on Type Pals and register for the monthly postcard exchanges. The “Cat Mews” is a quarterly publication of the philatelic topical group Cats On Stamps Study Unit (COSSU), for which I am a column contributor. My cats are Wiffle Wizard and Urushi (Rushi) Blizzard, aka the Blizzard Sisters.
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