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.
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.
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?
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
Olympias have such distinctive cases - you mst have searched high and low for the missing machine!
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ReplyDeleteThis 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.
I even asked the other patrons. no luck at all.
ReplyDeleteOuch! That stings.
ReplyDeleteMy sympathies. Hopefully you picked up the case just by chance a case-less SM-3 or 4 shows up, right?
ReplyDeleteNo, the line was too long and I had to get home. I'll probably try later this week and see if it's there.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteOuch 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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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?
ReplyDeleteI think it turned out to be plywood with a beech veneer? ask Rob at typwriter heaven, he refinished one. It came out very striking.
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