Hi all, just putting my head out of the burrow for a moment to say yes, I am still alive! My most recent acquisition are mainly Gromas - I got two beat-up Kolibris but no pictures yet. And a Halda, very sweet, which has one of the nicest cases I've ever seen. The machine is a delight, too, but no image as yet. This picture is maybe a little hyper-saturated and makes the machine look a little greener than in fact it is - it's a soft greenish-grey colour - but it's a picture of my 1955 Groma Modell T, taken by Piotr Trumpiel at that London type-in in November. Here's his blog post about the event, too (you can even see a baddish picture of me, typing on his Kolibri).

Anyway the Modell T is the most ineffably wonderful machine I think I've ever seen or used. It has the most beautiful grey keys, and it sounds wonderful, and it moves so smoothly, the carriage is like a dream. And it's just the right size, and truly lovely.

The two Kolibris I got, one of them works fine now, though it's missing its backspace keytop, and is a slightly ugly tan colour. The other is one of those light green ,etalic ones, and is a Luxus - as Piotr says, 'a fat Kolibri - what's the point', though I have to say I like it. Right now it needs a new drawband and a lot more cleaning. Once they're both up and running I'll take pictures.

 

Is that the tan one in the picture?  It's hard to tell on the computer, but I like the color!

Hi Spazmelda, no, the tan one is a Kolibri - this is the mid-size portable, the Modell T. it doesn't actually look this green. Tomorrow I'll try and get a better picture of it for you - maybe alongside the Halda, or maybe not, as it won't do the Halda many favours. The Modell T is up there for me with the SM9 and the Hermes 3000 and it just looks and feels perfect. 

The tan Kolibri is at my boyfriend's place right now, but I can try and photograph the Luxus. Maybe I should try and do the drawband. Delivered a six-hour workshop today that I've been prepping all week, so maybe I can reward myself and try and fix a typewriter...

Back in September '15,

ztyper wrote:

I've been searching for the SG-1 for nearly a year and every chance I have to get it, it some how doesn't work out... 

Have you found one yet? There has been one which looks in good condition on eBay for a while for a moderate price, and if you negotiated with the seller on packing you might stand a fair chance or receiving it intact.

I'd buy it as a spare but I have definitely run out of room to keep spare office behemoths for post-apocalyptic preparedness! Unless I found a reversible way to build furniture out of them. Or I maybe a tunnel... 

And I think you and I were looking at the same Remington Noiseless before... I remember looking at one and I thought how funny it was that it lacked the letters on the keys. Almost bought it, but I chose to wait for an Underwood Noiseless instead because I like the look better.