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$15 Thrift Shop Find
Every once in a while, a good deal is still possible to find. This was in my local thrift shop today for $15:
1946 Smith-Corona Silent. Perfect mechanical condition, just a slight moldy smell from the otherwise pristine case.
- colrehogan
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Re: $15 Thrift Shop Find
Well done! I thought I had a similar find last year, but the seller cranked up the price at the last minute. I was annoyed but bought it anyway since I had not seen it in that model and typeface locally.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
- OregonJim
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Re: $15 Thrift Shop Find
Jacking up the price after someone shows interest isn't cool. Anyway, this one is in plain old pica. Still, it was a nice treat.
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Re: $15 Thrift Shop Find
Bargains - or normal prices as I like to call them - are still out there. I really like the Smith-Coronas from that era; they represent a nice balance of vintage aesthetics and useable performance. Great find!
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- keystriker
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Re: $15 Thrift Shop Find
I love the round keys. I have a Silent-Super from the '50s, and while the body still has that rounded '40s/'50s shape, the keys are rectangular. Just not the same. But it writes so beautifully and has those automatic tab sets, so I can live with it and not even cast a, ah, wistful eye -- boy, those round keys sure are purty -- at that '46 Silent. Sigh. 1946 is the year I was born. No, Must. Be. Strong. Must. Must must must...
“Don’t be too harsh to these poems until they’re typed.
I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty:
at least if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.”
~ Dylan Thomas
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Re: $15 Thrift Shop Find
colrehogan wrote:
Well done! I thought I had a similar find last year, but the seller cranked up the price at the last minute. . .
That happened to me when buying a bicycle once. A Schwinn Super LeTour 12.2 for $100. I looked at it, talked to the guy for a while, and bought the bike. While I was loading it on my scooter (I don't have a car), he mentioned that the price was $150. So I said I understood, and started unloading it until the price came back down.
He has some other nice bikes, but I haven't gone back to see them.
Some people I just won't deal with.
