1969 Smith Corona Cougar XL #6Y 113926
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Todd Payne (TheTypewriterCollector)
Created: 02-28-2021 at 11:50AM
Last Edit: 02-28-2021 at 11:52AM
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Description:
A nifty Corsair variant. 1969 is my best guess with the relatively low serial.
One wonders if all the Cougar XLs were script. It's possible I suppose. The racing stripe on the case, which I thought was done by its owner, must have been factory as Dr. Poly's example has it as well. All in all a nice example of what I think of as "the quintessential cute American plastic Typewriter of the late 1960's and early 1970's (tm)" :). I suspect the racing stripes made this an alternative to the Super G.
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A lover of the written word, I was bitten by the typewriter bug at the beginning of 2019 when I embarked on a Joyful Odyssey to track down a vintage Olympia SM 7/8/9, (I didn't know the model number at the time) that my mother had owned and which I had used to type my college applications in the late 1980's. I have acquired quite a number since, and have enjoyed learning about the history, mechanics, and true variety of these machines.
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