- thetypewriterman
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Re: SG Owners Club
The SKM was basically a long carriage SM9 in a larger casing to make it look more like an office machine. I think that Olympia were probably trying to go for the same market as the Adler Special - not that it was a particularly large market. The Adler Special had a long production run but few sales compared with their standard office typewriters.
- SoucekFan
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Re: SG Owners Club
On Reddit, I found a post with two more of the "mystery" Olympia standards, which I think may just be SG3 variants:
- Pete E.
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Re: SG Owners Club
Thanks...and these two have "proper" Olympia basges, too.
- Pete E.
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Re: SG Owners Club
Only one Olympia SMK displayed on the TWDB. Here are a couple of the photos :
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- Pete E.
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Re: SG Owners Club
Well I was able to snag another plastic paper support on eBay this past week. $ 40 including shipping.
Will give it a try on my machine to see if it will allow a forward-facing mount. Will report back when I get the part in the Post.
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- Pete E.
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Re: SG Owners Club
This eBay seller from Ukraine does not know what he has sitting on top of the platen of his for-sale Consul machine (which is very pricey...) :
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- colrehogan
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Re: SG Owners Club
I have six of these! Two with elite, one with pica, one with 17 cpi manuscript, and one with elite double gothic. All except the pica have a paper injector and the pica one has a huge plastic paper table.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
- Uwe
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Re: SG Owners Club
Impressive!
I only seem to come across SG1s with mundane office typefaces: six either have AR7 or #87 elite, and three with #12 pica. Only one of my SG3s breaks that pattern, a 1978 model that came from a radio station that is equipped with the #28 Bulletin typeface.
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Thread Starter- colrehogan
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Re: SG Owners Club
colrehogan wrote:
I have six of these! Two with elite, one with pica, one with 17 cpi manuscript, and one with elite double gothic. All except the pica have a paper injector and the pica one has a huge plastic paper table.
and I can't count!
Three with elite. The rest is correct.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
