1966 Smith Corona Sterling #5AX-420291
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Montague Withnail (Thistlebright)
Created: 10-12-2024 at 10:55AM
Last Edit: 10-24-2024 at 06:27AM
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Description:
Meet "The Miami Vice-Writer"! So named by Charles Barrett Justice III (otherwise known to his YouTube followers as "Typewriter Justice")... yes, this typewriter has been repainted. Charles Justice is the person I credit with my falling headfirst into the world of typewriters. I watched his videos for a year, and I realized how in love with them he is, and by proxy I began to actually feel emotions when I looked at typewriters. I recalled using them in my not completely misspent youth, and I decided to get one. One turned into... well, a lot more than one. Normally, I'm an "original only" type of person, but I absolutely could not resist the siren song of this color. Charles set me up with not only a gorgeous machine that "sings" when you type on it, but it was professionally packaged so that it arrived in pristine shape. How great is that? Sonny Crockett couldn't have done better, even in a cigarette boat.
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Hunter: Montague Withnail (Thistlebright)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 540
Started with one typewriter in our small cottage, and ended up with over twenty! Transformed a closet into a gothic "typewriterbrary" and it makes a great centerpiece for the house, and an easy way to access all the typewriters for writing letters, journaling, and whatnot, as well as keeping them dust-free in the betweentimes.
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