1961 Olympia SG1 #7-734803
Status: Sightings
Hunter: John Cooper (johntheeditor)
Created: 06-25-2019 at 05:26PM
Last Edit: 11-09-2019 at 09:03AM
Description:
Drove 40 minutes to see this SG1 at a moving sale, only to find it trashed: broken paper table, bent character gage, chipped platen guard, and grimy sawdust sprinkled throughout like iron filings on an electromagnet. Fortunately the $20 I paid for it included two virtually unused boxes of correction film, as well as the original Olympia cleaning kit (also trashed), some brushes (very worn) and a screwdriver, an original Olympia dust cover (torn and taped), and a cheap wooden typewriter table. And he threw in a set of four modern vTech landline phones. The typewriter had the senatorial font in elite. Donated to Ace Typewriter as a parts machine.
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Hunter: John Cooper (johntheeditor)
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Resident of Portland, Oregon since 2015. Mostly interested in semi-portables of the '30s, '40s, and '50s (the late glass key top through late pre-electric eras), with a special interest in unusual or distinctive typefaces other than techno and script. Always learning!
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