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Smith-Corona Classic 12 Cyrillic Typeface – For Sale $455

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This is a near perfect Smith-Corona Classic 12 typewriter featuring a Cyrillic typeface at 10 CPI. It types very nice, leaving a nice dark imprint. It comes complete with the carrying case, manual and warranty information. The warranty paperwork is not filled out, spanking new. Since this machine comes with the newer style plastic case, I'd say it is most likely from the year 1980. 6LTV615777 For Sale $455 … [Read more...]

A wonderful Trio of Brosettes

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I love my typewriter collectors as they bring in some very interesting machines.  These three Brosette portables are from one of my favorite collector guys. You do not get the opportunity to have a Brosette typewriter from West Germany in many collections. I'd only seen photos. It was a real hoot to have three in the shop all in one swoop. According to the notes in typewriterdatabase.com these lovelies were manufactured between 1953 and … [Read more...]

Royal Model 10 from the Year 1931

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This Royal model 10 was brought in for repair and needed a ton of work. Someone really used this typewriter . . . a lot. A genuine dirt bucket, this machine needed a heavy cleaning and the type bar rest fell apart as I was cleaning the type faces. The platen had seen an amazing amount of wear, the paper rollers disintegrating and pretty much if it was rubber that stuff had seen better days! After assessing the machine, we agreed it needed … [Read more...]

Tom Thumb Toy Typewriter

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This toy typewriter was brought in by a customer for some light service. I like the toy typewriters. Not a single one types worth a hoot, yet they are plain cute. This nice red President is a well preserved example of the plastic variety. The machine has been serviced and will be a unique gift. It even has a carrying case! … [Read more...]

It is Typewriter Gifting Time!

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Can't decide which typewriter to give your loved ones? Try a nifty gift certificate and let them go wild! These lovely certificates were made by our local Bremerton Letterpress. The certificates are a work of art, the typewriter design by Marit Bockelie. … [Read more...]

Musical Typewriters, My Oh My!

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It is not often you are graced with a typewriter collector's recent finds. In this case an Oregon collector shared his recent catch of three Music Writer typewriters http://www.musicprintinghistory.org. Two are Olympia SG3 machines and one a R. C. Allen Visiomatic A machine. He had me service one of the Olympia and the R. C. Allen. Each is a modified typewriter by the Music Print Corporation of Boulder Colorado to accommodate the … [Read more...]

Remington Junior Typewriter, what a treat!

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The Remington Junior typewriter was made from 1914 to 1918. A three bank keyboard, it has both an uppercase and a figure shift similar to the Corona 3 portable typewriter. This hunk of iron is a "portable" as it came with a case. And what a case it is! It is so funny to open a very large case, and then see a some what smallish typewriter within. This typewriter is a family heirloom and is in quite nice condition. … [Read more...]

Man the Torpedo! Cursive, and that is a delight.

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This creamy yellow Torpedo portable typewriter from the year 1960 came to me a bit broken. Dropped of course, and now complete with multiple bent levers and the paper bail. So sad as I see this with Voss typewriters as well. After getting a few of these models in the shop for dropsy repair I've developed the opinion that the carrying case is to blame. Yes! I blame an inanimate object and its deceased designers. The way both the Torpedo and … [Read more...]