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1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve Serial # 6MLC 553322 H 1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve typewriter, Serial # 6MLC 553322 H Christopher Bailey's 1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve typewriter. 2023-06-27 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve Serial # 6MLC 553322 H In good shape; the only problem is a slightly wobbly return lever. Cosmetically the exterior is very good; inside it came with an unusually lush growth of eraser crumbs. I think I need a leaf blower.

1976 Smith Corona Galaxie Twelve #6MLC 553322 H

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 06-27-2023 at 03:52PM
Last Edit: 06-27-2023 at 04:49PM

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In good shape; the only problem is a slightly wobbly return lever. Cosmetically the exterior is very good; inside it came with an unusually lush growth of eraser crumbs. I think I need a leaf blower.

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The unjam key, which is where the tab key was on earlier models, works better than other similar mechanisms I’ve tried. POWER-SPACE is a lot of fun but marginally useful when you’ve also got a keyset tabulator.
The unjam key, which is where the tab key was on earlier models, works better than other similar mechanisms I’ve tried. POWER-SPACE is a lot of fun but marginally useful when you’ve also got a keyset tabulator.



The red sticker on the right-hand spool advertises Smith-Corona Custom Ribbon Control. I wound a new ribbon on the old spools, because I didn’t want to miss out on Custom Ribbon Control.
The red sticker on the right-hand spool advertises Smith-Corona Custom Ribbon Control. I wound a new ribbon on the old spools, because I didn’t want to miss out on Custom Ribbon Control.



The serial number is on the bottom, so it has no chance to accumulate eraser crumbs.
The serial number is on the bottom, so it has no chance to accumulate eraser crumbs.

A blurred picture of the date-code sticker. It’s legible, but someday I’ll replace it with a better picture. If I remember.
A blurred picture of the date-code sticker. It’s legible, but someday I’ll replace it with a better picture. If I remember.

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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