1939 Olympia 8 #319456
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Alfred Kaltenecker (alfredklt)
Created: 12-06-2017 at 02:53PM
Last Edit: 12-06-2017 at 03:01PM
Find on Ebay #AD
Find on Etsy #AD
Description:
Heavyweight, war horse. This is the most solid typewriter in my collection. Also coming back from a basement to the light. It has to be cleaned, but even in the actual state it is fully functional and the ribbon (after pulling some meters from the bobbin) contains enough colour.
The typeface test was written with the old ribbon!
Weight: 16,8 kg ! Cast iron.
Typeface Specimen:
Photos:
Hunter: Alfred Kaltenecker (alfredklt)
Alfred Kaltenecker's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 880
Collector with typewriter virus living in Austria. Fourty years ago typewriters were only standard office equipment for me. I was really glad to get my first but simple word processors in the early Eighties with delete, copy/paste and whatever wonderful functions. This fascination is over. Now I have returned to real mechanics.
Check also: https://typewheeler.blogspot.com
RESEARCH NOTE: When researching the Olympia 8 on a computer with lots of screen real estate, you may find that launching the Olympia Serial Number page and the Olympia 8 By Model/Year/Serial page in new browser windows can give you interesting perspectives on changes throughout the model series.
