Fleetwing wrote:

I trust you'll name it "Countess Maritsa"?

Embarrassed to say that I'm not familiar with that work despite being an opera fan.

There are a number of interesting associations with Maritsa (Maritza), this ONE being the most colloquial, but I'm sure the model name was inspired by the river that flows through Plovdiv, Bulgaria where the typewriter was manufactured. There was a Maritsa 11 model which preceded this one that still used the Princess case; it would certainly be nice to find one of those as well.

Here's a photograph of my Olivetti Lettera 32 which just arrived this morning. Insanely pleased with my purchase, and I'd like to (smugly) point out this photograph was taken without any prior cleaning or maintenance work! The seller listed it as being in perfect working order, and truly this feels like a machine that has just left the factory. There is no damage to its flawless blue paint, nor any rusting inside. It types like a dream and has already become the firm favourite of my little collection!

I recently added this one to my small collection. It was "Made in Holland" it says, which makes it more appealing to me personally.

 

Spazmelda wrote:

I can't see your pic Schop

Neither can I. It's a bad link, so there's nothing I can do to fix it. 

(Schop, send me the link to the photo in a private message and I'll fix your post.)

Oooh! I like that very much. But Uwe said somewhere that this typeface (Gothic?) might be tough to read over a longer document, and I think I see his point. Maybe it's the single-line spacing. Still, this is Very Cool indeed!

What is the text, by the way?