1963 Olympia SM7 #2250708
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 01-28-2025 at 03:11PM
Last Edit: 01-28-2025 at 05:22PM
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Description:
My first Olympia typewriter, and it was a beauty. I purchased it from the original owner, and it needed nothing. A very smooth typer, and I liked the mid-century-modern style of the body. Purchased in November 2020.
Sold December 2022.
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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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