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I love seeing corrected serial number stamps - it's a weird thing I know - and I'm always happy to get a machine that has one. In a way it sums up typewriters in general; oops, made a mistake, I'll just type over my error.
As for the number itself, keep in mind that the Database is not complete or absolute. I have one '70s Facit with a serial number in the seven millions. And many other Facits used prefixes to indicate model type. The extra digit could be a digital model code, or just a change in the company's serial number system in the '70s.
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" In a way it sums up typewriters in general; oops, made a mistake, I'll just type over my error. "
That's funny.
With German pistols...we would joke about the effects of too drinking too much schnapps the night before.
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I have seen some botched numbers that had a little more effort in the correction. On those the mistake was ground out before it was restamped, again much like typing errors but in this case going to the effort of using correction tape.
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A ground-off serial number is a common (though not guaranteed) sign of a stolen unit. Striking over some of the numerals is a more clever disguise.
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On Etsy...a Poland-made clone of what looks to be an ADDO machine.
Seller indicates its a clone of a Facit 1620, but the colors and the platen knob design makes it look more like an ADDO.
The typewriter, offered, has a wide carriage as well. No Tab functions, at all, though.
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I guess the person applying the decals had one leg shorter than the other (more than normal that is); every decal on the machine appears to be slanted downward to the right. It's not a reassuring quality control sign when you can't even correctly line up a decal.