1962 Hermes Media 3 #3116998
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-09-2025 at 02:33PM
Last Edit: 04-09-2025 at 11:40AM
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Imagine the emotional rollercoaster: I'm in an antiques shop and spot the iconic seafoam green case on a shelf with a $40 price tag. Joy! Open the case: missing ribbon cover. Sadness. Inspect the type slugs: cursive! Joy! Can I live without a ribbon cover? At that price, yes. So I took it home in January 2025, cleaned it up and started using it. **UPDATE: Thanks to the generosity of Oliver S. from Germany, I now have a correct ribbon cover. Oliver contacted me and offered me the cover, and went through the trouble of shipping it overseas to me. Thanks, Oliver! I'm excited to have a complete machine.
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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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