If that day comes I´ll have a seizure, and when I recover I´ll take these I feel more attached to, instead of the "good" (i.e. valuable, collectible, notorious...) ones. Then these will be:

- My grandpa´s Olivetti Linea 98 (The first typewriter of my collection)
- My girlfriend´s grandpa´s Olivetti Lettera 32 (The second, and the one which really bit me)
- My other grandpa´s Olivetti Studio 44
- Continental Silenta (a "good" one)

I have many candidates for the final slot, but most probably it would be my real first typewriter, the one I was given when I was 10, a Nakajima 8000. Again, nothing special in terms of performance or collecting potential, but it´s MY typewriter!

Except for the Silenta (and I include it because I really appreciate it) one could say that´s a budget collection, and this demonstrates that collections are not made just by pouring money into them. But let´s hope the day of getting rid of all typewriters doesn´t ever come!


 

That´s Alan Wake´s typewriter, if I´m not mistaken! I really want one of these, but these are hard to find in Spain...

But look at what´s popped ut at home today:



A Bennett! The embodiment of the term "trinket". Unusable even in perfect condition (and this one is not half bad, excluding the missing paper bail), but who doesn´t want one? In addition, this little vermin has an undecipherable keyboard layout. Looks like a mutated AZERTY. Following the s/n, it must be a 1913 unit, with a quite late serial.

Well, here it´s presented as a joke, but it has a point. In fact, a friend of mine has mentioned it several times as an example of online safety juts because of its lack of the "online" part, so you just have the "safety". Neat, huh?

It still sounds like a joke, but again, if you don´t want something running around out of control, don´t upload it.

My biggest miss was an Olivetti M20, which I let go for the damnest, smallest bet in the auction. Just 5€ more and I would´ve been mine, but somehow I let it go.

That plagued me for a while, but at the same time I learned a good lesson: If a typewriter goes, another one will come. I missed that working M20, yes, but its place was then occupied by a Fox 23. I couldn´t afford both so in a sense one opened the way for the other.

Which one is better? I can´t say, because Fox typewriters are definitely scarce in Spain (and mine is working at 100%, so it´s a good reason to be happy) and the M20 is only slightly more frequent than it, and that machine (not to mention the M1, my ultimate goal) hits me right on the feels.

As for direct misses on flea markets, I don´t have that problem. No flea markets in Spain, which is a way bigger, fatter, enormouser problem.

Sometimes I still think about how stupidly did I let that M20 go, though...

This is abit off-topic, but that shot of the Kolibri shows the clever placement of everything in such a flat typewriter.  Just another way of looking at typewriters, admiring the great engineering in them (not to mention how cool they look).