1960 Smith Corona Electric Portable #5TE228469
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-07-2025 at 10:11AM
Last Edit: 02-07-2025 at 01:45PM
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Description:
1960 Electric Portable that I picked up in New Windsor, New York in March 2023. It was pretty clean and functioned well from the start. Some minor cleaning and a new ribbon and it worked well. Elite typeface. I like the red "Electric" logo, and the white accents on the keyboard surround and spacebar brighten up the appearance.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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I "accidentally" started collecting typwriters in the fall of 2020. After my daughter got one cheap at a junk shop, and hearing that she intended to use it to write some old fashioned snail-mail letters to friends, I decided to get "a" typewriter myself to do the same. The first one was a real lucky break: a pristine 1950 Smith-Corona Sterling in perfect condition. From there I got interested in other brands and in refurbishing dirty and forgotten machines. I've had 65+ typewriters at this point, passing many along to excited new owners to keep my collection hovering around 20 machines.
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