What ever price you paid for the SF DeLuxe, it will be well worth it. This Olympia is one of my favorites and is probably the one I use the most because I can take it anywhere with me. The feel is very solid and firm, unlike some other ultra-portables out there. And better yet, it's in cursive!

I really do like it. The feel is much better than the little Rocket I have, that is comparable in size.  I wanted this one very badly. I did not expect the sellter to respond to my offer as it was much lower than the asking price, so I'm pleased that I got it.  I saw this machine weeks ago, I think I might have posted about it, and I waited to place an offer until it had been out on the display for a while hoping they'd be more willing to come down in price. I don't know if that strategy worked, but they did come down a lot more than I expected.

It has a very sad typed letter included in the case, where the owner was explaining why she had not written to some aquaintences (friends, family?) because of her mother's death. It also includes the original warranty card with the owner's name, date of purchase, and serial number. I put a type sample in the type database thread. I'm a sucker for cursives!

Gaad, you guys and your cursive typewriters! 

That Royal HH I bought that has the large-cap/small-cap italic font - I may have posted something abot it on here - the guy was saying it was a great machine and worked really well before he put it in his garage 20 years ago, and 'only needed some oil'... well, I've sold it. For the princely sum of £6.50. the whole thing was gunged up, he had clearly only ever oiled, and never cleaned, and even the carriage return lever wouldn;t move when I first got it. I only paid £12.50 for it so not losing much, and am going to be glad to be rid of the thing frankly. I've sold it to a woman who is just beginning to collect typewriters and is really excited. Good. I'll tell her what it needs doing... but it's the closest I've ever come to a cursive machine (not very close!).

I couldn't resist this one, a virtually unused 1975 Smith Corona GT Ghia complete with go faster stripes on the case and tyre tread designed anti skid on the base and carriage return. It arrived in a very large cardboard box with a lifetime's supply of bubble wrap and air bags as this is one portable that does not travel well. It was an unwanted present and had only typed one thankyou letter before going back into its case. The margin stops were still set for Octavo sized paper. I paid £5 for it plus £4.80 postage. It also arrived with a note from its previous owner. Unbelievably, not every teenage girl in the seventies wanted a typewriter. There is a picture of it and one with its packaging on my flickr stream.
Oh! there seems to be problems linking with the new flickr and I do not seem to be able to post the pictures on here at the moment. Anyone any ideas on this?

Last edited by retro (30-8-2015 13:23:34)

large x huge, lol.

I picked this up yesterday: