Puzzling....Hermes 3000S Typewriter

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Posted by Pete E.
17-5-2024 15:28:07
#11

Similar to this other, partial label on another machine for sale in Japan...
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Posted by Pete E.
17-5-2024 17:02:40
#12

My wife tells me I missed the obvious...

Hermes 3000S(wedish)


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Posted by quicktapper
18-5-2024 05:54:47
#13

I have had a look on the Antique Typewriter Collector's Group on Facebook, and I've saw some people asking the same question about the "Hermes 3000 S". It appears that some collectors hold it in the same regard as the Facit 1620, but other collectors have regarded it as a complete piece of trash...interesting. 
Opinions seem to differentiate on this machine, but the only way to know what it's like to use, would be to buy it.


"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen..."--Nineteen-Eighty Four, George Orwell
 
Posted by Pete E.
18-5-2024 12:18:26
#14

I would jump on a decent one if for $ 100 USD or less.  But not at $ 200-300 and more.

And then, I would still be tempted to put a new label on the machine which reads as "Really A Facit".

I like the design of the lid/case...
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Posted by robmck
07-11-2024 18:03:50
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Here's another for auction (not affiliated with the sale): https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/190600795_vintage-hermes-3000-s-typewriter-wcase

Opening bid is $350. (It was on the block last week with an opening bid of $400, but nobody bid). 

Looks to be in VG shape, though. 

 
Posted by JJH
26-11-2024 14:48:05
#17

I saw a video on Youtube with a similar machine, and that one was made in Poland instead of Sweden. From that we can make an educated guess that this is indeed a Facit Privat/1620, which was made to look like a 3rd gen Hermes 3000. I had one of those Facits, made in Sweden in the 1970s, and I quite liked it. The brown faux leather case was probably the best I've seen, with plenty of space to store your papers and stationery.

 


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