1964 Smith Corona Sterling #5AX 274439
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
Created: 06-26-2023 at 12:19PM
Last Edit: 07-09-2023 at 03:43PM
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Purchased for $10 on Facebook Marketplace. Wound up working perfectly, just needed some elbow grease to look its best. Not a perfect body - has nicks and some minor rusting - but a great deal for my first typewriter.
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Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 373
First typewriter bought in 6/2023, now at over 30 in my collection with most recorded in the galleries. There's a special place in my heart for Smith-Coronas, blue typewriters, and typewriters from 1964 (my parents' birth year). Prefer manuals to electrics, portables to ultra portables or desktops, but will head home with anything if it's cheap enough and functional/repairable. I've successfully gifted typewriters to two siblings, a best friend, and an in-law. Keeping up with my lifelong tradition of making and repairing by hand. When not typing or working on a typewriter, I'm often reading, gardening (vegetable), preserving harvests (canning, dehydrating, freezing), knitting, sewing, writing letters/short stories, or shooting film photography. I like the slow, analog life.
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