196X Smith Corona Electra 120 #6LEV-354701
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 04-25-2023 at 01:08PM
Last Edit: 04-25-2023 at 03:41PM
Description:
I don’t go looking for electric typewriters. But this one was in a thrift store yesterday marked $10, and it brought back memories of the very similar Sears typewriter my father had when I was growing up. I plugged it in and turned it on, and it made that same low rumbling purr I remembered. Everything seemed to work flawlessly, so I brought it home and gave it a new ribbon, and you can see the results. Pica type.
To judge by the serial numbers of other Electra 120s in the galleries, this may be from either 1969 or 1970.
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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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