- HuntsItAll
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I'm new as well. Welcome to the group Ami!!!
- KatLondon
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Hi Ami, wow, £3! What typewriter is it? I see our little UK contingent is growing.
Welcome both of you 
Huntsitall, youve been busy...
- vintagevixen
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An Imperial Good Companion 4 with leatherette zip up case.
- KatLondon
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Ah, very nice! I keep trying t get one of those but keep gettng outbid. And case as well - you got a bargain!
- RetroTypist
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Hello everyone! My name is Kevin and I live in a small town outside of Buffalo, NY. I work in the IT sector and just recently acquired an interest in old typewriters.
I purchased a Royal Safari for $20 at an estate sale a few weeks ago and started using it to type letters to friends. Since then I've acquired a Smith-Corona Clipper and a Royal KMM. I love typing on the KMM. As you can see my collection is rather small as of now, but I'm sure it will grow with time.
My other interests include fountain pens, mechanical pencils, ham radio, photography, fly fishing, steam engines, theater pipe organs and classic films. You could say I am a retro-man.
I look forward to posting on the forum and making new acquaintances and friends as well as learning more about these mechanical marvels called typewriters.
Kevin
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- Fleetwing
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Hi, I'm Nick, and I just joined a few days ago. I live in Hartford, Connecticut USA -- home of Underwood and Royal. I too am a retro guy -- I have a longstanding interest in film cameras.
Got my first typewriter, a Remington Fleetwing (hence my forum name) last November -- I found it at the local dump (excuse me, transfer station) in a small town on the Maine coast where we have a house. The very same day I had found Wilfred Beeching's "Century of the Typewriter" at the local library's book sale, so it was fate. The Fleetwing needed some work, but it's fine now. The case isn't great -- one zipper is busted -- but it does the job. And the whole thing was free!
Since then I have acquired a few more typewriters, notably an Olympia SM3 and SG3 which I love (the latter, with elite font, I got for free from a guy on Craigslist -- the tab keys stick but it's otherwise working fine). I also found, in answering a Craigslist ad for a couple of cameras, a perfectly nice SCM Classic 12 that the guy had put in the dumpster. I like the Smith Coronas very much -- classic styling and nice action (not as good as the Olympias, though -- not sure anything is).
I am trying to not acquire many, and move out machines that I don't "need," but that could be tough! I would like to have examples of Hartford-made machines, of course -- looking currently at an Underwood Touchmaster 5.. And I would like to learn how to perform repairs and restoration of typewriters also.
- KatLondon
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Hi Nick, I grew up in Hartford! I left ages ago though. Your machines sound great, I love my Olympias.
I will raise you a Smith-Corona Silent-Super, though - just as wonderful as the SM's. Also, I am all about the Hermes.
- Fleetwing
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No kidding! I grew up in a suburb of Hartford, and have lived in the city itself since 1990, when I got married. Other than going away for school, I've been in the area all my life. You live in a much larger city, however....
- KatLondon
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Well, that I do! Can't deny it. But I will say I've had the same thoughts as you about wanting to have Royals and Underwoods. (I haven't managed an Underwood yet.) You can imagine my DOUBLE joy when I managed to get a bargain on a Blickensderfer - and then found that they were made in, I think it was Stamford.
- Fleetwing
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KatLondon wrote:
Well, that I do! Can't deny it. But I will say I've had the same thoughts as you about wanting to have Royals and Underwoods. (I haven't managed an Underwood yet.) You can imagine my DOUBLE joy when I managed to get a bargain on a Blickensderfer - and then found that they were made in, I think it was Stamford.
Oh yes, a "Blick" or two is definitely on my list. Remarkable machines, and the fact they were Connecticut products is a point of pride. Several other brands were made in CT too -- Noiseless (later bought by Remington) in Middletown; Williams in Derby; Yost (forget where exactly).
