1961 Optima Super #1152830
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Aldo Lagana (AldoL)
Created: 05-26-2025 at 04:52AM
Last Edit: 05-26-2025 at 05:18AM
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Description:
Script beauty that had escapement issues required quite a teardown to knock it out. Cast aluminum case is brilliant. It types rather clunky but I like the large keys.
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Hunter: Aldo Lagana (AldoL)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 107
Born and raised less than a quarter mile from The Noiseless factory in Middletown, CT. (It was Remington Rand by the time I came around). I was getting interested in mechanical typewriters when my wife brought home a blue 1965 Smith-Corona Sterling in perfect condition. Now I own 21 mechanical and 3 electric typewriters!
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