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1966 Olympia SF De Luxe Serial # 5-1254572 1966 Olympia SF De Luxe typewriter, Serial # 5-1254572 Christopher Bailey's 1966 Olympia SF De Luxe typewriter. 2023-04-01 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1966 Olympia SF De Luxe Serial # 5-1254572 This one needs a bit of work before it can be a reliable writing machine. A few keys are sometimes sticky; that would probably correct itself with some exercise. The margin stops are not reliable: returning the carriage with too little force will not take it all the way to the left margin, and returning it too hard can ram it past the margin stop. Probably a little bit of delicate pushing and prodding somewhere would take care of that.

The type is in one of those un-American pitches, 11 characters per inch.

1966 Olympia SF De Luxe #5-1254572

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 04-01-2023 at 11:17AM
Last Edit: 04-01-2023 at 11:22AM

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This one needs a bit of work before it can be a reliable writing machine. A few keys are sometimes sticky; that would probably correct itself with some exercise. The margin stops are not reliable: returning the carriage with too little force will not take it all the way to the left margin, and returning it too hard can ram it past the margin stop. Probably a little bit of delicate pushing and prodding somewhere would take care of that.

The type is in one of those un-American pitches, 11 characters per inch.

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The keyboard.
The keyboard.

With the paper support raised.
With the paper support raised.

Move the carriage all the way to the left to find the serial number (partially obscured by the bell).
Move the carriage all the way to the left to find the serial number (partially obscured by the bell).

The carriage-return lever folds down for packing.
The carriage-return lever folds down for packing.


The case is ripped, so that the zipper can’t be closed.
The case is ripped, so that the zipper can’t be closed.

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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