1962 Olympia SG1 #7-880590
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-06-2025 at 06:31AM
Last Edit: 02-06-2025 at 06:36AM
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Purchased in January 2025 from Tom Furrier at Cambridge Typewriter as he prepared to retire. This was an unserviced machine that he allowed me to purchase as a project at a very fair price. It was very clean but had damage to the front of the body that caused the spacebar to hang up. I was able to straighten it and get the typewriter working well. It was amazingly clean inside. With a new ribbon, it types wonderfully. The keys have a confident feel and it's easy to type fast. This one appears to be a non-DeLuxe model: there is no chrome strip around the base, and it doesn't have the paper injector or the double-spacing feature.
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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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