- 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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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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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.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- 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).
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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...
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- Penhurion
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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.
- trash80
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My collection of typewriters is currently (in order of arrival)
Brother Deluxe 1350
Olympia Olympiette
Brother Deluxe 800
Hermes 305
Silver-Reed Silverette
Imperial 2002
Adsit Graduate
Erika 105
WH Smith Red Fox
Imperial 200
Silver-Reed 70
WH Smith Grey Fox
LItton Imperial 201
Smith-Corona XE1630
Kofa 300
Boots Model 42
Boots PT800
Underwood 315
Hermes media-tronic 14
Smith-Corona GT Ghia
Olympia Monica electric
Royal 200
Olympia Traveller deLuxe S
Triumph-Adler Tippa
Silver-Reed SR100 Tabulator
Atlas Portable
Olivetti Lettera 42
Olympia SF Deluxe
Silver-Reed SR10
Boots PT400
Silver-Reed Leader II
- Pete E.
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Only 1 machine was beyond repair and went to a parts dealer..an IBM Model D.
All others are in my collection and all are fully functional.
1. 1957 Olympia SM3
2. 1954 Underwood Quiet Tab Deluxe
3. 1957 S-C Silent Super
4. 1957 Royal Quiet DeLuxe
5. 1962 Triumph Perfekt
6. 1964 Hermes 3000
7. 1960 AMC (Alpina)
8. 1964 Torpedo 18s (Remington)
9. 1961 Olympia SM7
10. 1947 Royal Quiet DeLuxe
11. 1959 Royal Futura 800 (grey)
12. 1968 Olympia SM9
13. 1961 Aztec 600 (Rheinmettal)
14. 1965 Olympia SF
15. 1967 Facit TP2 ( Cursive script )
16. 1968 Hermes Baby
17. 1962 Royal Futura 800 (cococa)
18. 1955 Halda P
19. 1966 Underwood Olivetti 21
20. 1961 Olympia SG1 (Standard)
21. 1964 Triumph Tippa
22. 1964 Facit TP1
23. 1971 Facit T2 (Standard)
24. 1959 Consul Deluxe 1511
25. 1969 Facit 1620
26. 1971 Olympia Traveller (Pistachio Green)
27. 1973 Facit 1840 Orange (Electric)
28. 1959 Everest K2
29. 1978 ADDO 621 (Facit)
30. 1974 Olympia SGE-35 (Electric) Cursive Script )
31. 1978 Olympiette SEP (Electric)
32. 1981 Brother Deluxe 1613
33. 1957 Imperial Good Companion 5
34. 1977 Olympia SGE A62 (Electric)
35. 1971 Hermes 10 (Electric)
36. 197x Olympia 3 Traveller (Made in Japan)
37. 1958 Tower President (Sears)
38. 1967 Olivetti Lettera 32
39. 1950 Olivetti Lettera 22
40. 1958 Remington Quiet Riter
41. 197x Citizen S4-U (Electric)
42. 1976 Erika Daro Model 40
43. 1960 Royal FP Standard
44. 1970 Olympia Traveller (Turquoise Blue)
45. 1960 Smith-Corona 5TE (Electric)
46. 1963 Olympia SM7 (Baby Blue)
47. 1960 Olympia SM4
48. (IBM Model D – Trashed 7-2023, Broken plastic power return gears.)
49. 1960 Swissa Junior
50. 1974 Olympia Report (SKE-A61) (Electric)
51. 1966 Smith-Corona Electra 120 (Electric) ( Cursive Script )
52. 1980 Olivetti Lettera 36 (Electric)
53. 1964 Smith-Corona 250 (Electric)
54. 1963 Royal Parade
55. 1961 Smith Corona Pacemaker
56. 1977 Olympia Monica S (Made in UK – Scotland)
57. 1964 Royal Parade (Americana Jr.)
58. 1978 Olympia Traveller De Lluxe S - Nutmeg Brown ( Made in Yugoslavia ) Cursive Script
59. 1961 Olympia Splendid 99
60. 1975 Olympia Traveller (SF) - Purple Iris ( Made in Yugoslavia )
61. 1954 Princess-Matic (Willy Scheidegger Re-brand of a Princess 300)
62. 1960 Tower President XII
63. 1978 Olympia Traveller De Luxe S - Orange ( Made in Yugoslavia )
64. 1961 Olympia Futura 800 “Americana”
65. 196x Royal Century (was Diana) ( Made in Holland )
