- colrehogan
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Re: Composition of your typewriter collection
Adding machines, calculators, fountain pens, and pencils. 
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
- OregonJim
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Re: Composition of your typewriter collection
Same here, as well as old radios, palm pilots, and guitars (another story altogether 
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I've only been looking for typewriters for a few months, but here's my modest collection so far:
01 Royal Model 10 (1930)
02 Royal KHM (1937)
03 Smith-Corona Silent (1946)
04 Royal Quiet DeLuxe (1948)
05 Royal Quiet DeLuxe (1948)
06 Smith-Corona Skyriter (1954)
07 Remington Quiet-Riter (1957)
08 Royal Custom (1965)
09 Smith-Corona Electra 120 (1965)
10 Smith-Corona Corsair Deluxe (1967)
11 Smith-Corona Coronet Electric (1968)
12 Sears Forecast 12 (1968)
13 Smith-Corona Electra 120 (1968)
14 Smith-Corona Electra 220 (1968)
15 Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe (1969)
16 Montgomery Ward Signature 100 (March 1971)
17 Olympia SM9 DeLuxe (1971)
18 Smith-Corona Classic 12 (1973)
19 Smith-Corona Classic 12 (1975)
20 Smith-Corona Sterling Automatic 12 (1976)
21 IBM Correcting Selectric II (1976)
22 IBM Correcting Selectric II (1979)
23 Brother EP-20 (1983)
24 Sharp PA-1050 Intelliwriter (1986)
25 Sharp PA-3100E Intelliwriter (1988)
26 Brother EP-41 Travel-Riter (198x)
27 Smith-Corona SpellMate 700 (1998)
- Uwe
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Re: Composition of your typewriter collection
OregonJim wrote:
...the math tells me that you have 86 typewriters (using a reasonable assumption)....
My math skills are terrible, so I naturally began to wonder how you would have calculated that total. 
Then I noticed the last three brands on the list with one of them being a braille model, and it suddenly made sense. It also reminded me that I own a braille typewriter too, and that I have never added it to my personal database. I didn't even know the brand, so I just dug it out and it turned out to be a Perkins Brailler.
- colrehogan
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Actually, I think I am somewhere around 90, so that's not far off.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
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1955 Hermes Rocket
1954 Hermes Baby (restored)
1959 Smith-Corona Skyriter (awful)
1948 Smith-Corona Silent (typed out, but pretty)
1965 Adler Tippa 1 (British keyboard, purchased by Dr. Boyd O'Dell in Hamburg in 1965) Daily driver.
1971 Olivetti Lettera 32 (daily driver)
1968 Webster XL-500 (Elite)
1967 Royal Mercury
1976 Olympia Traveller de Luxe (Brazilian keyboard)-came from a photo shop next to the Vatican in Rome, still has the shop sticker on it.
1971 Olympia SM9 (perfection)
1966 Olympia Splendid 33 ("Italien 4" keyboard, purchased 2020 new-in-box :-). So nice to get to break in a "new" machine in 2020.
I use the Mercury, XL-500, and the beat-up looking but mechanically perfect '55 Rocket in the field, alternately riding on the Yeti cooler behind the seat of my work truck. Great field machines. Started out using a '59 Royal Royalite in college to type all my papers (this was in the late 70s, early 80s-a miserable hand-me-down machine with a skipping escapement).
- Uwe
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...Started out using a '59 Royal Royalite in college to type all my papers (this was in the late 70s, early 80s-a miserable hand-me-down machine with a skipping escapement).
I used to take my '59 Royalite on vacations...
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Thanks for posting a great vacation photo of your Royalite!
- BrianL58
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1933 Royal ‘O’ Excellent condition
1941 Royal KMM Cosmetically perfect, carriage is binding suspect that it was damaged in shipping
1946 Royal Quiet DeLuxe salvaged, working well but needs some love
1948 Royal Quiet DeLuxe Very nice machine
1958 Smith- Corona Silent Super, alpine blue, cleaned up very well
1958 Remington Quiet-Riter, was received upside down in the case, do packing BUT not a scratch.
1961 Olivetti Studio 44 perfect, even the case was spotless, nice typer
1961 Olympia SG-1 was a gift, like new, a beast but very nice in use
1965 Royal Mercury, cleaned up very nice
1969 Olympia SM-9 wide carriage, 12 cpi, old emblem with fabric covered case, excellent but musty
1969 Olympia SM-9 wide carriage, New emblem and international case (didn’t need two but $19?)
1971 Olivetti Studio 45, very clean but missing the paper supports ?
1978 Olympia SM-9, 10 cpi, my daily kitchen table typer
1978 Smith-Corona Coronet Super 12, the only electric, very clean
197x Smith Corona Classic 12, on the way, hoping for the best as I found out after the sale that they can not find the nice hard case..
I use them all in rotation, except the KMM .I have high hopes for that one. With the back rail off it functions, all keys, carriage moves, tab works.
