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1965 Smith Corona Sterling Serial # 5AX-343980 1965 Smith Corona Sterling typewriter, Serial # 5AX-343980 Christopher Bailey's 1965 Smith Corona Sterling typewriter. 2023-08-01 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1965 Smith Corona Sterling Serial # 5AX-343980 It begged to be adopted from the thrift store. It’s a very common model, but I’ve seldom run across a typewriter that worked so perfectly right away, without any fussing at all.

1965 Smith Corona Sterling #5AX-343980

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 08-01-2023 at 12:43PM
Last Edit: 08-01-2023 at 12:53PM

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It begged to be adopted from the thrift store. It’s a very common model, but I’ve seldom run across a typewriter that worked so perfectly right away, without any fussing at all.

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I don’t know what the piece of ancient tape in the back is holding down. Better not mess with it.
I don’t know what the piece of ancient tape in the back is holding down. Better not mess with it.

Under the hood.
Under the hood.



The serial number is under the ribbon cover, next to the left spool.
The serial number is under the ribbon cover, next to the left spool.





Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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I’m a writer who often writes with a typewriter to get away from the computer for a while. I think I became a typewriter collector when I bought my typewriters some industrial-grade wheeled steel shelving from a restaurant supply house. Before that I was just an accumulator, but now I’ve spent more on shelves than on all the typewriters put together. (They were all cheap.)

I have steel pens, too, which I also write with regularly. Both collections started at the same moment in 1990, at the liquidation of the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain, where I bought a Woodstock typewriter, two gross of Esterbrook Jackson Stub pens, and three bottles of Carter’s green ink.


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