198X Maritsa 30 #31026872
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Elisa Makoon-Singh (escribiramaquina)
Created: 05-21-2025 at 03:17PM
Last Edit: 05-21-2025 at 03:23PM
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Description:
This typewriter is named after the Maritsa River in Bulgaria which flows through the city of Plovdiv, where the Typewriters Works manufacturing plant was located.
This was sent to me from a shop in Spain. You can tell by the keyboard that it was made specifically for the Spanish market in España, as it includes a "Pts" key which was the currency back then. The "peseta" was of course made obsolete by the introduction of the euro around 1999.
Thanks to the "Pts" key, I consider this Bulgarian machine my most auténtico español of my Spanish typers. Currency symbol. No apostrophe (but you make an apostrophe by doing the accent symbol and a space)
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Hunter: Elisa Makoon-Singh (escribiramaquina)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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I love to write and found that writing on a typewriter is the most enjoyable and distraction-free way of doing it. I started with an Alphasmart, then moved to a Royalite, then to an Olympia SM5. The Olympia kept me fully satisfied for a good seven years until I got the bit by the collecting bug. Now I am slowly amassing my own personal typewriter museum. Typewriters are like personal printing presses. My partner is an engineer who can fix and clean any typewriter, so we make a great team.
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