Post(Card)-A-Day 22: Typewriter Market Resurgence

Flea market typewriter sightings:

The No. 3 has a ribbon color selector and a few other features not on the Junior, but other than those and the white keys, it is virtually identical, wouldn't you say? In fact, both typewriters were distributed by the same shop in Zurich.

The Remington Travel-Riter.

Here, the Burroughs adding machine that was our first sighting of the day.

 

One I had almost forgotten about, a large standard-size Triumph (from the Gabriele era) labeled Special.

Post(Card)-A-Day 21: Drab but Drama Free - Olive Green Groma Kolibri

Really uncanny how the keys and the body are matching exactly, but it's grown on me.

This is the only one of the three to have a Swiss keyboard; the others came from Germany. I like having the French accents easily available, as well as the currency sign Fr. Also note the exclamation point key!

So the usual yardstick is a box of matches, but I just thought I'd also show that the height of the Groma Kolibri is roughly equivalent to the cap of a Lamy Safari pen :-)

In surprisingly good condition, all things considered. A lucky find.

And thus Groma Kolibri week on Retro Tech Geneva, February 14-21, comes to a close. Next up to be used for typecasts will be a couple of Hermes Babies, and then, over the weekend, an intriguing new portable that I am quite keen to feature on the blog...

Post(Card)-A-Day 20: Variations on a theme

 

 Splendid 66 x2, no match for Olivetti Valentine x13!

A duo of Olympia SFs

Vanilla and Sage

Ring a Ring o' Roses

What typewriter would I want to collect over and over, myself? Perhaps a whole array of basket-shifted '50s Underwoods: Golden Touches/ Leaders/ Finger Flites, in all their different colors and shapes. Now that's a theme I could get behind.

Either that, or a whole variety of Groma Kolibris - mainly because they were produced in such an impressive array of colors that it would be fun to collect them all. But they would be my second choice because from what I have seen, their delicate mechanisms leave something to be desired as far as having withstood the passage of time.