1972 Olympia SM9 #4454679
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Daniel Burgoyne (Ixzed23)
Created: 02-06-2022 at 03:00PM
Last Edit: 03-05-2023 at 06:16AM
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Description:
This nicely kept typewriter was purchased in Terrebonne, Québec, in June 2021 but was originally sold in the Québec City area. Belonged to a lady who used it for personnal correspondance, who must have been a smoker as the machine smells of nicotine. Made in West Germany, equipped with a QWERTY French Canadian keyboard layout.
This machine, in original condition and perfect working order, came with the owner's manual and black hard case. The typeface is Elite No. 8 with 2.3 mm pitch. It types very well with a very positive action keyboard that is hard on first contact, before yielding with a positive, snappy action.
One of, if not, the best portable I have ever used.
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Hunter: Daniel Burgoyne (Ixzed23)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 595
Bonjour! I am from the region of Montreal, Quebec and moved to Ottawa, Ontario in 1992.
Amateur watchmaker and machinist, I love anything mechanical, hydraulic or electric. I have restored American and Canadian clocks and small lathes, milling machines and a jig bore.
Most of my typewriters have French Canadian QWERTY keyboards, with some exception for rare finds.
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