Moscow 4 / Москва 4

1956  |  Moskva 4  |  11838

I recently got some old film for my Polaroid Spectra camera and took this picture of my Moskva among some of my Eastern European road maps. The first image is a scan made while it was developing.

I am selling the 1970s Moskva 8M that I brought back with me from Tbilisi back in 2013. It's not a really high-value typewriter, but to the right person it'd be nice to have. It's well-used and a little beaten up but a sturdy machine and works fine. The case is included. Check out its gallery on the database for more photos. If you're interested, send me an email. schreibstang at gmail dot com.

Sent from my new Moskva 4 and my Mercedes Superba

I like vodka / Mystery typewriter

Sent from my Olympia SM3

Typewriter silhouette quiz results

Here are the answers you've been waiting for. Alternates and clarifications in parenthesis.

1 - Imperial Good Companion 1 (Model T)

2 - Rheinmetall KsT (Supermetall, Soemtron)

3 - Underwood Standard Portable (4-bank)

4 - Olympia SM7

5 - Voss (1950-1952)

6 - Remington Streamliner (Model 5)

7 - Olivetti Valentine

8 - Erika 10 (12)

9 - Royal Model P

10 - Triumph Perfekt (3rd generation, Norm)

11 - Groma Modell N (T, E)

12 - Smith-Corona Silent-Super (Super 5)

13 - Imperial Good Companion 5

14 - Hermes 3000

15 - Voss De Luxe

16 - Remington Portable 1 (Portable 2)

17 - Corona Sterling (flattop)

18 - Torpedo 18 (2nd generation)

19 - Olivetti Studio 44

20 - Underwood Universal (Champion)

21 - Continental Klein-Conti

22 - Olympia SM3 (SM4)

23 Royal Quiet De Luxe (1948-1949)

24 - Everest K2

Only two people participated! As they say, if you snooze you loose. Scott Kernaghan got 7 completely right and 2 partially right, for a score of 8. Richard Polt got 15 right and 1 partly right, for a score of 15.5. It's interesting how some of the typewriters Scott identified, Richard didn't, and vice versa.

This is my 400th blog post. This means 100 posts on my new blog address!