1940 Continental Standard #938737

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)
Created: 03-10-2026 at 11:19AM
Last Edit: 03-10-2026 at 11:20AM

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This typewriter has spent the last 20 years in the open, exposed to rain and snow, and in fact in looks messy.
The owner has decided few months ago that the time had come to get rid of it and of an Olympia Mod. 8 that has shared with the Continental the same destiny.
He remembered that a friend of him told him of a guy who should have been interested in typewriters, and that guy eventually was also a friend of me.
Visit, pictures (those presented in the gallery), a call and the deal was done. It was the last chance for the two ladies not to be thrown away.
The typewriters are some 300 km away from my home, so I have to wait the opportunity to go personally to pick them up.
Will the Continental write again? Probably not, but with the help of some parts borrowed from other Standard may be yes. It looks extremely bad, but looks almost complete. In any case, it is a relatively late model, and I really want to compare it with my earlier models and document how the mechanic of the Standards has evolved in time.

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Hunter: Paolo Dal Chiele (pdcox)

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