1976 Erika 50 #5562170
Status: My Collection
Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
Created: 02-28-2024 at 09:02AM
Last Edit: 02-28-2024 at 03:33PM
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Though not a lover of "modern" typewriters, I am lover of Erikas, but in plastics especially the 50. Mine has no tabulator so is 50, not 60. Curvature of the sides, and the green color, make this a favorite and, other than my Selectric II, my only post-1960s machine. (n.B. the red dot being there on the Leertaste makes quick time spacing.)
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Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
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Ja, I am happy a collector of Schreibmaschine to be, und to hunt them down like dogs for my collection to have. My erste Schreibmachine I have fondly remembered was an old American Royal portable -- 1930s? How I got this one, where it came from, I cannot recall -- und so on a QWERTY to type learnt. Happily, most of my Maschinen now have the QWERTZ, und so for the deutsche Maschinen mostly I look, though I do not despise the qualität-built amerikanischer Maschinen.
I not only am collecting, but I use each one in my epistolary endeavors. If the revolution is being typwritten, then we must be about our business typing.
Ich liebe meine Frau; ich liebe meinen Hund; ich liebe eine Erika. Warum? Ich liebe Worte, Qualität, und Präzision!
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