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1968 Sears Courier Serial # 9063080 1968 Sears Courier typewriter, Serial # 9063080 Brad Sarno's 1968 Sears Courier typewriter. 2019-01-10 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Brad Sarno: 1968 Sears Courier Serial # 9063080 The Sears Courier that is based on the Olivetti Lettera 22 began production in 1966. I'm not sure of the year on this one. It was made in Olivetti's Mexico factory. It's basically a Lettera 22 minus the touch control. This on is in virtually new condition, has the manual and case too. Small elite typeface, 12-pitch. It's a great typer, very quality machine. I honestly can't detect any quality difference from this Mexican build over the Barcelona or Italy builds I've seen. I assume that Olivetti tooled up those factories to spec. These Couriers are essentially the newest Lettera 22's you can get. I read that they began making these for Sears after the Lettera 22 was officially discontinued by Olivetti and the Lettera 32 had completely replaced it in their line.

1968 Sears Courier #9063080

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Hunter: Brad Sarno (bradsarno)
Created: 06-08-2014 at 09:24AM
Last Edit: 01-10-2019 at 09:52PM

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The Sears Courier that is based on the Olivetti Lettera 22 began production in 1966. I'm not sure of the year on this one. It was made in Olivetti's Mexico factory. It's basically a Lettera 22 minus the touch control. This on is in virtually new condition, has the manual and case too. Small elite typeface, 12-pitch. It's a great typer, very quality machine. I honestly can't detect any quality difference from this Mexican build over the Barcelona or Italy builds I've seen. I assume that Olivetti tooled up those factories to spec. These Couriers are essentially the newest Lettera 22's you can get. I read that they began making these for Sears after the Lettera 22 was officially discontinued by Olivetti and the Lettera 32 had completely replaced it in their line.

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