Typewriter Shops: Decals and Nameplates

Inside the lid of an Hermes

On a plastic bag for a typewriter cover that came with an Olympia

Right on the front of an Olympia

Inside the lid of a Cole Steel

Side of a Royal

Back of a mystery Corona

Back of an Olympia, sold right down the street

The easy winners are The Typewriter Doctors and Western Typewriter Supply!

Typed on He Whose Name Must Never Be Mentioned (Smith-Corona)

The Great Feeling of Loss / Consul and Olympia

TYPEWRITER DAY 2013

It's difficult to capture the beauty of this typewriter. The lines are pleasing and it is painted a very glossy rich cream colour that doesn't show well in photos. It tends to look a bit washed-out. When it was new in the late 50s, it was doubtlessly very dated to the eye of the American consumer.

If you'll remember, the Olympia SM3 was thoroughly caked with dirt. I finally gave it a fairly rough scrubbing that seems to have got most of it out! The pictures are not ideal as the sun began to set during this mass photoshoot.

Thus ends Typewriter Day 2013 for me. Two posts is hardly sufficient to devote to typewriters, which is why we have all the rest of our lives. :) "I raise my ribbon in a toast to Typewriter Days for the rest of the days typewriters exist."

Typed with and from my Consul Silent.

He Whose Name Must Never Be Mentioned

TYPEWRITER DAY 2013

1949/50 Smith-Corona 4AR15827
"He Whose Name Must Never Be Mentioned"

Composed with my new Smith-Corona, unanimously elected leader of the local division of the insurgency, which is not organized top down, but contrarily on a local basis with no administrative connection whatsoever to any claimed central power.

Soon after this typecast I heard an explosion in the near distance. Remember, I live right downtown in a city.

His serial number cannot be found in the Typewriter Database, and I guess he is from 1949/50. For now I will call him a Smith-Corona 4AR, just like we call the Electric a 5TE.