197X Underwood 315 #7378047
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
Created: 07-30-2023 at 07:53PM
Last Edit: 07-30-2023 at 07:57PM
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Description:
$10 clearance consignment store buy. In really great shape (though the case is not), the only hiccup is the auto-ribbon-reverse is gummed up. Will get a thorough cleaning and see if we can shake it loose. Not intended to keep, but I also didn't intend to buy it in the first place, so we'll see. Thought it typed quite well.
Did come with some original documentation (card showing features, etc.). Will photograph at a later date and provide better images of the typewriter, too.
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Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
Amanda Wood's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 373
First typewriter bought in 6/2023, now at over 30 in my collection with most recorded in the galleries. There's a special place in my heart for Smith-Coronas, blue typewriters, and typewriters from 1964 (my parents' birth year). Prefer manuals to electrics, portables to ultra portables or desktops, but will head home with anything if it's cheap enough and functional/repairable. I've successfully gifted typewriters to two siblings, a best friend, and an in-law. Keeping up with my lifelong tradition of making and repairing by hand. When not typing or working on a typewriter, I'm often reading, gardening (vegetable), preserving harvests (canning, dehydrating, freezing), knitting, sewing, writing letters/short stories, or shooting film photography. I like the slow, analog life.
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