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198X Smith Corona DeVille 80 Serial # 5AKA 3178813 198X Smith Corona DeVille 80 typewriter, Serial # 5AKA 3178813 Christopher Bailey's 198X Smith Corona DeVille 80 typewriter. 2024-01-11 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 198X Smith Corona DeVille 80 Serial # 5AKA 3178813 Beat up and missing pieces, but working. With tax I paid $2.68 for it, which may have been too much.

198X Smith Corona DeVille 80 #5AKA 3178813

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 01-11-2024 at 08:53PM
Last Edit: 01-11-2024 at 09:04PM

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Beat up and missing pieces, but working. With tax I paid $2.68 for it, which may have been too much.

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Missing the paper bail, and the little stub of plastic that would function as a hinge is broken.
Missing the paper bail, and the little stub of plastic that would function as a hinge is broken.


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The first time I found one of these lids I thought those plastic latches felt flimsy. I was not wrong. The right one is broken off. But gravity does most of the work anyway, doesn’t it?
The first time I found one of these lids I thought those plastic latches felt flimsy. I was not wrong. The right one is broken off. But gravity does most of the work anyway, doesn’t it?

Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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I’m a writer who often writes with a typewriter to get away from the computer for a while. I think I became a typewriter collector when I bought my typewriters some industrial-grade wheeled steel shelving from a restaurant supply house. Before that I was just an accumulator, but now I’ve spent more on shelves than on all the typewriters put together. (They were all cheap.)

I have steel pens, too, which I also write with regularly. Both collections started at the same moment in 1990, at the liquidation of the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain, where I bought a Woodstock typewriter, two gross of Esterbrook Jackson Stub pens, and three bottles of Carter’s green ink.


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