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1968 Olivetti DORA Serial # 4004025 1968 Olivetti DORA typewriter, Serial # 4004025 Guillermo Fernandez Boan's 1968 Olivetti DORA typewriter. 2022-11-06 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Guillermo Fernandez Boan: 1968 Olivetti DORA Serial # 4004025 Italian (Ivrea) Olivetti Dora (aka 31) like brand new. Bought in Buenos Aires from its original owner, an Italian lady who scarcely used it. Hence it has an Italian keyboard. This plastic white typewriter still smells like a new one despite it being over fifty years old. It still retains its original delivery two-color ribbon, whose length is very short (weird Olivetti economies indeed!).
That ribbon is obviously dry, so I still need to get a new one in order to add the typeface specimen sample (I promise!)
By the way, these typewriter lines were drawn by the Maestro Ettore Sottsass (bow).
Over its ribbon cover, you can find the distinctive Greek Spiral, created in 1954 by another Olivetti design genius (Marcello Nizzoli).
As long as I can find looking at other Doras in the TWDB, the Greek Spiral can only be found in those Italian-made Doras.

1968 Olivetti DORA #4004025

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Guillermo Fernandez Boan (ORTBRAKER)
Created: 11-06-2022 at 08:59AM
Last Edit: 11-06-2022 at 09:10AM

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Italian (Ivrea) Olivetti Dora (aka 31) like brand new. Bought in Buenos Aires from its original owner, an Italian lady who scarcely used it. Hence it has an Italian keyboard. This plastic white typewriter still smells like a new one despite it being over fifty years old. It still retains its original delivery two-color ribbon, whose length is very short (weird Olivetti economies indeed!).
That ribbon is obviously dry, so I still need to get a new one in order to add the typeface specimen sample (I promise!)
By the way, these typewriter lines were drawn by the Maestro Ettore Sottsass (bow).
Over its ribbon cover, you can find the distinctive Greek Spiral, created in 1954 by another Olivetti design genius (Marcello Nizzoli).
As long as I can find looking at other Doras in the TWDB, the Greek Spiral can only be found in those Italian-made Doras.

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Serial number
Serial number

transport lever (to fix the carriage)
transport lever (to fix the carriage)

Greek Spiral over the typewriter's name/brand
Greek Spiral over the typewriter's name/brand







take a look at the short original delivery two-color ribbon
take a look at the short original delivery two-color ribbon

Italian keyboard
Italian keyboard


Hunter: Guillermo Fernandez Boan (ORTBRAKER)

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