1956 Olympia SG1 #7-149249
Status: My Collection
Hunter: GK Mandigo (gkmandigo)
Created: 07-07-2025 at 02:50PM
Last Edit: 07-07-2025 at 10:07PM
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Description:
Nickname: "Ollie"
This machine is my new favorite desktop standard, slightly edging out King Henry the Royal HH. Very smooth typer, the paper-injector works and it even still has the plastic paper rest that are always missing from these models. As seems to be the case with Olympias, it is loud and makes a distinct ping when the typebar strikes, you do not want to use it when people are sleeping. But it is a machine that I could type on all day without a problem.
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Hunter: GK Mandigo (gkmandigo)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 335
Metastatic cancer fighter and sudden cardiac arrest survivor who has gotten into vintage typewriter collecting after realizing that life is short and typewriters are fascinating. My machines range from 1947 to 1969 and I type on all of them and have given each of them a name. Have I mentioned that life is short? I am having great fun with this obsessi- I mean hobby. I live in San Diego, California.
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