1960 Smith Corona Sterling #5A 836415
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-04-2025 at 06:38PM
Last Edit: 02-04-2025 at 06:39PM
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Description:
Purchased at a local antiques shop in December 2023. Needed a good cleaning and a new ribbon, but it worked great after a minor servicing. I really liked the typewriter and the color, but I sold it soon after I bought it. I regretted it instantly and found a similar one locally to replace it with.
Sold December 2023.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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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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