A few weeks ago I decided it was time to let some typewriters go. It was time, I hadn't used many of them in years. I was successful in selling 10. Now I have 14 left. I was feeling pretty proud of myself for lightening the load when I came across an electric Smith Corona Coronet in excellent condition and in CURSIVE at a thrift store. It came home with me. A few days later, my unicorn popped up on FB marketplace---a Hermes 3000 in CURSIVE for an amazing price. After not buying a typewriter for about 6 years, I buy two in a span of a couple of weeks. Go figure but yay me.

​Recent acquisition is a robins egg blue Tower, 1960. I have two other colors of this Tower series, produced in 1960 only. Made by Smith Corona of series 5 parts for Sears and Roebuck. I think it's basically an SC Sterling or Silent from that period. They came with the SC "holiday" case. Like all SC series 5 machines they're good typers after a few rounds of solvent to dissolve the old grease. 


 

Pete E. wrote:

Mike,

Lovely machines in great colours.

Looks like the Forum is "blowing up"  your photos, as well.
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I think I'm just missing a mint green and a light tan to complete this pastel color series. As to picture size, I haven't visited and loaded pictures in a while so I may have missed some selection of picture size to fit. 

 

Pete E. wrote:

Mike, was there ever a 2-tone from the factory as well.

One is running on eBay...but I do not know if such came from the factory or a partial repaint in the past...
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/225536134490?hash=item3483004d5a:g:sSEAAOSwJTlkPqoR&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4H49sKV1uug7CBgsbl%2BEuL3zJZF9xCMSsZl3Tq0a%2FfPVjOKEa1zAk1VokzGWU8dMv%2FC3O%2Ffs47uSFpLlpcQFDN4mmtrlpEVr8ZNquSseh2ZhyFHb8mZ09oZkVL2p7%2FrgV44RopZx2qppZrPZARt3QnMKPxZwqYopaA%2BvCv1GlSEFGXI9BHp0FEqwmVgz%2BJXnMvMgvgk%2BqoG%2BbJAQGmrUlKkSukadNSd%2Bs1ADUWm7RR2sTbfZrB7tdbuHucdiEnCoFMMIb6qMKS8keKumcgOIylO6BGuzdCdeAGUVLmASQDis%7Ctkp%3ABFBMjLzr6sxi

That's a Tower President XII. It's just the 1960 Tower Tabulator pastel colors that I'm collecting. They are usually inexpensive so it's not too costly to collect different colors. I have blue, pink and putty(?). I think I'll pass on the tan and keep an eye out for a green one. Thanks


 

robmck wrote:

Tower Tabulator = SC Sterling or Silent?

Those period machines are similar so it's difficult to say if any one is the predecessor to the '60 Tower Tabulator. I don't currently have a Sterling or Silent to compare it with but the features look the same. The Tower has that flatted front cover like some later models such as the SC Classic. I imagine the SC mad men sitting around a table: "hey we have all these leftover parts going to waste and we're launching our new models. Let's call Sears and Roebuck!