196X Olivetti Studio 44 #299065
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Uwe Wachtendorf (Uwe)
Created: 09-28-2014 at 06:55PM
Last Edit: 09-28-2014 at 07:00PM
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Description:
It's the typewriter I want to love, but can't, because it has a heavy and wooden type action. It's size is a bit of enigma too; is it a big portable, or a miniature standard? Sure, sure, it has a travel case, but so did some of the big standards at one time. Regardless of its classification (officially it is a portable), I can think of far better travel companions than the Studio 44, some of them even from within Olivetti's own model range.
This machine's serial number falls into a chronological black hole, but there are good clues as to when it was made: It's badged as an Underwood-Olivetti, and its serial number is not much lower than an Olivetti-Underwood Studio 44 that I own, so I'm pretty confident in guessing it was built in 1961.
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Hunter: Uwe Wachtendorf (Uwe)
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Typewriter collector based in Toronto who prefers mid-century models.
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