197X Olympia Traveller #15-4761512
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Javier Vazquez del Olmo (Javi)
Created: 12-16-2013 at 05:30AM
Last Edit: 06-11-2015 at 09:46PM
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Another finding at Bristol, UK, and another one badly battered. Looks like it has been run over by a truck, but fortunately everything inside it works pretty well. The price was so good I could not resist buying it, hoping to restore it somehow.
In fact, the only restoration until now has been changing the ribbon, and even that has an interesting story to tell: I found it at the only shop still selling ribbons at Trowbridge, a really nice place to visit if you are interested in industrial archaeology.
I have edited this typewriter entry, since I had it wrongly identified as an Olympia Olympiette, my bad.
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Hunter: Javier Vazquez del Olmo (Javi)
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The first typewriter I saw was my grandpa´s Olivetti Linea 98 at the office. It was just a curio for me. Then I was given a Nakajima, which I didn´t use and my grandfather took it from me because it was easier to handle than the bulky Linea 98. Now I own that typewriter, and I started a little collection in Valladolid, Spain. The Nakajima, which is "my" typewriter only returned home in 2017, almost 20 years later, when he wanted a better typewriter.
A collection that started small grew into something bigger, a nuisace for my family and a great source of satisfaction for me.
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