1983 Western Auto (Brother) Wizard Automatic #K3303887
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jonathan Danz (Jehosephat)
Created: 01-11-2024 at 08:43AM
Last Edit: 01-11-2024 at 08:48AM
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Description:
This typewriter features an all plastic shell with the classic Brother JP guts, including the Repeat Spacer. The tabs are fixed at every ten characters. This also has a single paper rest that folds up from the carriage. Overall this types reliably, nice imprint and you can really fly on the keyboard without things jamming up, very much like my Royal Mercury (which I give the edge to because of its slightly smaller overall profile. Love these Brother machines.
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Hunter: Jonathan Danz (Jehosephat)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 31
I live in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia where I write, mountain bike and search for typewriters. I'm relatively new to collecting and am doing my best to keep it smallish, which, as you know, is not easy. I gravitate toward interesting-to-me post WWII standards and portables. I am a writer and find typewriters to be fantastic for focused work, plus I love the calming orderliness of the keyboard and the meditative tapping of the slugs on paper. Writing novels doesn't allow for regular feedback, so it's nice seeing the physical pages pile up as I go. People talk about how amazing modern mobile phones are in that we have a computer in our pocket, and they're not wrong, but having a printing machine you can carry around is pretty amazing too. Especially when your handwriting is as illegible as mine.
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