1962 Hermes Rocket #5926731

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Arlo Barnes (ArloJamesBarnes)
Created: 07-19-2017 at 08:13PM
Last Edit: 07-24-2017 at 09:19AM

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Description:

You are looking at a "VINTAGE HERMES ROCKET PORTABLE TYPEWRITER". This is a portable typewriter in a mint/seafoam green, made in Switzerland. The typewriter works great but could use new ink - it types very light. There is a screw missing from the side and two from the back. It comes with the cover and original instructions. The space bar is worn and the "B" key sits a bit lower than the other keys. There are a few spots where the paint has worn off and the cover has some scratches.

Details:
Vintage Hermes Rocket portable typewriter
Made in Switzerland; mint/seafoam green
Works; could use more ink
Good condition; some scratches, wear and missing screws

Typeface Specimen:

Photos:

Writer, cover, and manual

Carriage and head

Dinged space bar

Carriage, head, and top row

Writer front

Writer side

Missing screw

'Made in Switzerland' stamp

Manual

Cover bottom

Cover top

Hunter: Arlo Barnes (ArloJamesBarnes)

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When my mom was secretary of the PTA of my (second) elementary school, someone gave her a Hermes Rocket to type the minutes so they would not have to read her handwriting. And her brother Michael, before he became my uncle, had a Smith Corona word processor he gifted me. Both of these I had years before my first computer, a gift from a teacher who was amused by the Egyptian-seriffed sheaves I would hand him but who needed editable electronic documents NOT on the SC's tiny floppies. I recall writing short stories on that word processor starring my friends and "binding" them with tapes and covers of cardboard with coloured tissue paper glued on. Good times.