1977 Olympia Traveller #15-3409230
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 01-29-2025 at 12:21PM
Last Edit: 01-29-2025 at 12:22PM
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Description:
Yugoslavian-built Traveller that I found at a local antiques shop in August 2021. When I got a closer look after purchasing it, I realized it was a cursive machine: my first. It was a short enough cursive to allow bi-color ribbon. I like the typing action on the Traveller: it feels similar to the old SFs, even though there is a lot more plastic present.
Sold to another collector in December 2023.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 300
I "accidentally" started collecting typwriters in the fall of 2020. After my daughter got one cheap at a junk shop, and hearing that she intended to use it to write some old fashioned snail-mail letters to friends, I decided to get "a" typewriter myself. The first one was a real lucky break: a pristine 1950 Smith-Corona Sterling in perfect condition. From there I got interested in other brands and in refurbishing dirty and forgotten machines. I've had 65+ typewriters at this point, passing many along to excited new owners to keep my collection hovering around 20 machines.
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