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Monday, August 1, 2011

Can't win 'em all

Here we have the thrill of victory...



and the agony of defeat.



 I never did find the former contents.

If anyone knows any sewing machine collectors those are all over the place!


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10 comments:

  1. Rob BowkerAugust 1, 2011 at 5:26 PM

    Olympias have such distinctive cases - you mst have searched high and low for the missing machine!

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  2. Philosophothinker, ThDAugust 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM

    Join my new club!

    This has happened to me twice this summer, both times the cases -should- have contained typewriters I am wanting quite a bit.

    Well actually it makes me feel a little better now since that was an -Olympia- you missed... mine were two different Smith-Coronas.

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  3. notagainAugust 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM

    I even asked the other patrons. no luck at all.

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  4. Elizabeth H.August 1, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    Ouch! That stings.

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  5. TedAugust 1, 2011 at 8:14 PM

    My sympathies. Hopefully you picked up the case just by chance a case-less SM-3 or 4 shows up, right?

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  6. notagainAugust 1, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    No, the line was too long and I had to get home. I'll probably try later this week and see if it's there.

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  7. AdwoaAugust 1, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    The exact same thing happened to me just a month ago! I rushed towards a distinctive Olivetti Lettera case - silver and black, so undoubtedly containing a Lettera DL/ 33 - and it was empty. I bought the case anyway and now it fits our Lettera 22 perfectly (its case was a mess so we threw it out). It still stung though, especially as I've been lusting after the sleek lines of an L33 for months.

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  8. mpclemensAugust 2, 2011 at 9:39 AM

    Ouch indeed. I would go back for the case: some of them haven't aged well. The reminds me to photograph the SM3 case that the previous owner covered in flat, gray paint. Ugh.

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  9. maschinengeschriebenAugust 4, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    The SM3 cases are great. I think they remind me of batman. But does anybody know what they're made of? Is it some sort of wood, or something artificial?

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  10. notagainAugust 4, 2011 at 9:10 PM

    I think it turned out to be plywood with a beech veneer? ask Rob at typwriter heaven, he refinished one. It came out very striking.
    http://typewriterheaven.blogspot.com/2011/06/strip-show.html

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