1966 Smith Corona Sterling #5AX-432142

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 10-03-2026 at 01:06PM
Last Edit: 10-03-2026 at 01:22PM

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Description:

2026-OCT-03, Gallery Creation.

This typewriter is from the Mike Meakin collection. Mike was the owner of Abacus Office Machines in Spokane, WA, which he started in 1961. Mike retired in 1992, leaving the operation of the business to his children. In addition to running a successful office machine business, Mike was an avid typewriter and adding machine collector, whose collection grew to over 450 machines over time. Mike passed away in 2025, and his children are now gradually selling off his collection. His daughter, Trudy, has graciously allowed me to create TWDB galleries for Mike's machines, to add to our knowledge base.

This one is a very nice looking 5AX-series Smith-Corona Sterling, from around 1966; TWDB estimates up to 400000 for this model, so this serial number exceeds that by a bit. Listed on eBay as of yesterday, 10-2-2026. Case and accessories come with the machine, as shown in the gallery images. It's the 65th Meakin gallery I have created on TWDB. As it happens, Trudy Meakin Rogers listed this machine on eBay just a few days after Ted Munk posted a gallery for a screaming deal of a very similar 1965 SCM Sterling that he had found.

Typeface Specimen:

Links:

• Previous Meakin gallery (64th), Underwood 4-Bank portable #D628713 (1933)
• Ted Munk's 1965 SCM Sterling gallery, created 9-30-26, just a few days earlier

Photos:

Front view, with paper inserted.

Front view, with ribbon spool cover open.

Serial number (under the ribbon spool cover, to the left).

Detail of printing point and card guides.

Type basket.

Right broadside.

Aft.

Left broadside.

Forward left quadrant.

With case, manual, and accessories.

Detail of accessories.

Underside.

Back of case.

eBay listing page.

Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)

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My interest in typewriters started in 1997, when I was in graduate school at the University of Georgia. I purchased and read Darryl Rehr's book, joined ETC, and started reaching out to known collectors. I had several email interchanges with Richard Polt dating from that period. I also bought some of my first machines from Bob Aubert, and visited him at his home twice. After marriage and relocation to New England, I continued visiting antique shops and eBay, until other priorities put my typewriter hobby on hiatus around 2008.

In late 2024, I started up again, working on my machines and having some of them serviced professionally by New England Typewriter (NET) LLC (Merrimack, NH), until they closed their doors in December of 2025. Since mid-2025, I have been adding to my collection again, first with a Hermes 3000 purchase from NET, then with various auctions and purchases on eBay, when I find something that catches my eye.