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1948 Hispano-Olivetti Lexicon 80 Serial # 965092 1948 Hispano-Olivetti Lexicon 80 typewriter, Serial # 965092 Ada Osfeu's 1948 Hispano-Olivetti Lexicon 80 typewriter. 2025-11-13 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Ada Osfeu: 1948 Hispano-Olivetti Lexicon 80 Serial # 965092 First typewriter I got, not the first I've used. Found it on a thrift store (a curious one, it was the old local of my former job) for 20 bucks, the label says it worked and it was from post-war times (Spanish Civil War). Even if I didn't tried out, it looked sturdy and amazing just for 20€, so I grabbed it, they let me try and still worked with the ribbon it had, so it came home with me.
Tried to clean it throroughly, almost 80 years for a typewriter are insane on my head (even if it's not that old, I've seen some beauties on this website that are gorgeous and even older), so it's a little hard to type on it, specially when I'm used to the speed of a keyboard (I work on IT and been with keyboards the last 25 years), but it probably need a better cleaning with "mineral spirits", which is a term that I didn't hear before or it doesn't have a intuitive traduction in spanish (something like lacquer/paint thinner or similar) because the principal advice on my family was lubbing it and I'm seeing that's the pretty wrong option.
With the serial number, it looked that any of this typewriters with a serial number inferior to 2000000 was made on 1948 aprox. Quite an age for this precious!

1948 Hispano-Olivetti Lexicon 80 #965092

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Hunter: Ada Osfeu (adaosfeu93)
Created: 11-12-2025 at 06:35AM
Last Edit: 11-13-2025 at 05:02AM

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First typewriter I got, not the first I've used. Found it on a thrift store (a curious one, it was the old local of my former job) for 20 bucks, the label says it worked and it was from post-war times (Spanish Civil War). Even if I didn't tried out, it looked sturdy and amazing just for 20€, so I grabbed it, they let me try and still worked with the ribbon it had, so it came home with me.
Tried to clean it throroughly, almost 80 years for a typewriter are insane on my head (even if it's not that old, I've seen some beauties on this website that are gorgeous and even older), so it's a little hard to type on it, specially when I'm used to the speed of a keyboard (I work on IT and been with keyboards the last 25 years), but it probably need a better cleaning with "mineral spirits", which is a term that I didn't hear before or it doesn't have a intuitive traduction in spanish (something like lacquer/paint thinner or similar) because the principal advice on my family was lubbing it and I'm seeing that's the pretty wrong option.
With the serial number, it looked that any of this typewriters with a serial number inferior to 2000000 was made on 1948 aprox. Quite an age for this precious!

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Hunter: Ada Osfeu (adaosfeu93)

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Madrid, Spain | English isn't my first language so I'm sorry beforehand for the possible errors I could make in my texts
Rookie hunter, writer since child. First typewriters I met was two electric ones, didnt get a manual one until my thirties.
Proud owner and writing on:
- Hispano Olivetti Lexicon 80 from 1948
- Casiowriter CW-17 from 1991
Trying to repair:
- Olivetti Lettera 32


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