![]() Another popular choice among collectors is the script typewriter debuted by Olivetti Lettera in 1963.Swiss-made Hermes (3000, Media 3) seems to top the list of the most sought after vintage manuals with script font.Many of the script font typewriters were built toward the end of the typewriter era, from the late ‘70s to 1990 by the remaining typewriter companies, particularly the IBM models with the interchangeable ball.A rare standard typewriter Royal 10 with half block, half script font- was in customized production till 1971).Standard typewriters wiith script fonts are rarer to find than portables with script fonts.So far, I’ve gathered these few hunting tips, from online articles and Reddit forums: Typewriters with script fonts are unicorns, they say.īecause they were manufactured not for practical office use, but for fancy personal correspondence, very few units were made, which makes them so collectible today. I figured that I might as well share it, and that there is no reason why I should keep this to myself, because I only collected them from what others have written online. So here is a handy guide that I had collated from many articles and forums, about hunting for script typewriters. Will also be keeping my 4 others for the meantime, if only to satisfy my desire to learn how to clean and recondition units. Am keeping my script Olympia Traveller Deluxe S, for sure. So from now on, I resolve to only look at typewriters with script or unusual fonts, if I am to collect any more typewriters. What I do appreciate about it is that it has a beautiful script font. But typewriters take a lot of space, and I realized that I might not really be that much of an addict after all (thank goodness!), especially as I had already found a nice typewriter with a script font, and I don’t mind so much that it is a not so glamorous nor rare a find, and not so old. There will always be an excuse for you to scour the FB Marketplace for a new posting, and there will always be an excuse for you to not look the other way, especially if it has a good price on it. (True enough, though the route to her street was circuitous and confusing because of the narrow streets, her house was easy enough to find it was right where the Brgy Holy Spirit tricycle terminal was.)Ĭollecting typewriters is addicting, as I had been warned. 700 pesos was hardly even enough for a day’s worth of groceries, I thought, as she handed me her typewriter which she had used, she told us, as former secretary of the association of tricycle drivers in their area. A drove me 6 kms to Quezon City to pick it up. But the seller (who had written her name on it with a permanent marker, but which I can easily take out), it turned out, when we met her, seemed only too happy to get rid of it. My very last and cheapest purchase was a 700-peso Adler Junior 10 which I felt a little guilty getting for so cheap, because it still works. ![]() I started with my first unit in October 2020. And just like that, I collect typewriters now.
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