1963 Olivetti Studio 44 #458932

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 01-01-2026 at 08:34PM
Last Edit: 01-01-2026 at 08:43PM

Description Hunter 11 Photos 0 Likes  Find on Ebay #AD  Find on Etsy #AD

Description:

This Barcelona-made Studio 44 has the Olivetti-Underwood branding, so it was likely made in 1963 after the Olivetti-Underwood merger; perhaps it was made in 1962. I bought this machine on eBay, as an impulse buy, on January 5, 2008. It was the last typewriter I acquired through eBay. The purchase price was only $22.00, but shipping was $21.15, nearly doubling the total cost to $43.15. The shipping was on the level of a full office-sized machine, probably due to the size and bulk of the case. It came with the very attractive cream-colored upholstered wooden trapezoid case, which I believe was part of the appeal to me.

I had the platen and feed rollers re-surfaced by Ames Supply Co. in April of 2008, but nothing else has been done to the machine, other than to supply a new ribbon and do some light cleaning. It most certainly needs new rubber spacers for the body-to-frame attachment points. It types reasonably well in general, but sometimes the keys struggle to make it to the platen, leaving a very light impression. I'll have to trouble-shoot that to make it a pleasant-to-use typewriter.

Typeface Specimen:

Links:

• Link to gallery for my 1956 Ivrea-built Olivetti Studio 44
• Link to gallery for my 1971 Barcelona-built Olivetti Lettera 32

Photos:

With case.

Front with ribbon cover removed.

Serial number.

Right quadrant.

Right.

Right rear quadrant.

Back.

Left rear quadrant.

Left.

Left quadrant.

Typing sample.

Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)

Brian Decker's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]

Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 1106

My interest in typewriters started in 1997, when I was in graduate school at the University of Georgia. I purchased and read Darryl Rehr's book, joined ETC, and started reaching out to known collectors. I had several email interchanges with Richard Polt dating from that period. I also bought some of my first machines from Bob Aubert, and visited him at his home twice. After marriage and relocation to New England, I continued visiting antique shops and eBay, until other priorities put my typewriter hobby on hiatus around 2008. I still have my collection of around 57 machines, and now I have a renewed interest in getting some of them in good working and cosmetic order.