1937 Erika M #654644/M
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
Created: 01-26-2023 at 05:46PM
Last Edit: 09-01-2023 at 11:17AM
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Purchased in September 2022 from Lucas Dul's Typewriter Chicago. It has the English - QWERTY keyboard, which is rather scarce on an Erika M. All it needed was replacement feet--for both the typewriter and the case; I modeled and 3D printed them for it. This machine is a marvel of typewriter engineering, and types like a dream. So smooth! The placement of the margin and tab setting keys at the front left and right is brilliant, and the double-spaced type option is very cool.
I no longer own this typewriter; it found a new home in August 2023.
Primary photo by Lucas Dul.
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Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
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I'm a semi-retired software/web developer with a now eight-year-old grandson, Jaxon, who is crazy about typewriters. In late 2021, at age six, Jaxon got a Montgomery Ward Escort 350 portable from Goodwill that absolutely fascinated him. He still takes it everywhere, and remains especially pleased that it has a key for the number one. He considers his Escort to be our best typer, but I think that honor goes to our second generation 1969 Hermes 3000. Jaxon's got me hooked, and now--between us--we have a growing collection of writing machines. Together, we've set up and equipped a small workshop area and, whenever we get the chance, we clean and perform minor repairs on our typewriters. Now that Jaxon's reading and writing skills are steadily improving, he rarely needs anyone to tell him how to spell the words he wants to type.
Newer to typewriter collecting than Jaxon, I am particularly interested in ultraportables and portables, and have developed a special fondness for Gossen, Hermes, and Rooy machines. I am also very interested in any brand/model with a HCESAR keyboard layout. A collector-at-heart--I have long collected West Indian fiction (40+ years) and Haitian art (30+ years)--I am old enough to have owned and regularly used typewriters back in the pre-PC days.
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