Happy Christmas Typewriter Buyers and Users

This is my Christmas card for 2013. If so inclined, please feel free to print it out and stand it on your mantelpiece, just in case your card doesn't arrive in the mail from me in time for Christmas.

The reason my cards haven't been posted yet is that I have been flat strap all week this week posting off typewriters to people eager to receive them before Christmas. In many cases, the typewriters will be Christmas gifts, from parents, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.

One very satisfied customer couldn't wait for Christmas to use her Adler Tippa with cursive font, and was so pleased with her typewriter she sat straight down and sent me a Christmas card (above), addressed using her Tippa (of course).

The buyer emailed me as soon as the typewriter arrived: "Hi Robert! The Tippa arrived safely at 5.55pm this evening! I’d given up on it arriving today after 4pm but have since had two other deliveries as well. It is wonderful and I am loving it. Thank you so much for this amazing little typewriter. My husband thinks it is hilarious, I can’t get the smile off my face!"

This refurbished Remington Travel-Riter is headed for Alice Springs in the centre of the Australian Outback. While it costs $30 to post a typewriter of this size to Perth in the far west, and $25 to Adelaide, south of the Alice, Australia Post quoted me $67 for this shipment - I guess because Alice Springs is just so incredibly isolated!

All up I have fully serviced,  fitted new ribbons, boxed up and posted 12 typewriters this week (including the Corona Empire-HG Palmer above), which will explain why I haven't had much of a chance to do anything else, such as post all that often on this blog. Apart from very positive responses to three eBay sales, so far the only feedback I've received has been for the cursive Tippa, but I guess these are still early days yet. The eBay sales were a Smith-Corona flat top, an Olivetti Roma and an Olivetti Tropical:

Happily, the feedback was: "Excellent seller, perfect product!! Amazing communication!!!" "Bought two of these. Both arrived from AU in perfect condition. Awesome :) Thanks!"

This refurbished Olivetti Studio, a Triumph Perfekt with Fraktur font, a Rooy and an Olympia SM8 with wide carriage also sold during this period, and the buyers were equally delighted with their purchases:

The big rush of pre-Christmas sales started when I sold an Olympia SM3 to a Canberra lady. She was so happy with her purchase, she let her Facebook group of friends know about it, and suddenly I was inundated with typewriter requests. The lady herself also bought an Olivetti Lettera 22 in pistachio (for a cousin), a Triumph Personnel with cursive type and an Olympia Splendid 66 (for her mother):

Other typewriters shipped this week were:

Refurbished Smith-Corona Sterling

Pinnock-Craftamatic (Nakajima)

Underwood 10 (Antares)

Olivetti Lettera 82 (aka Hermes Baby)

Royal 201 (Nakajima)

Lemair Deluxe 250TR (Brother)

FOR SALE

Some of my typewriters still for sale are below - email me for details of price etc:

 Consul (also available as an Optima)

  Royal 200 (Silver-Seiko)

  Antares Compact 233

(also available as an Underwood)

 The Quest

  ABC 3000

  Olympia Olympiette

  Waltons (ABC)

 Optima

 Alpha

Remington Monarch

 Nippo P-200

 Olympia SM9

 Underwood 310 (Olivetti Dora)

Olivetti Lettera 41

 HG Palmer Sterling (Smith-Corona Series 5)

 Olivetti Lettera DL

 Montgomery-Ward Escort 33 (Olivetti Dora)

Olivetti Ventura (aka Dora)

Remington Graduate

Mercedes (Olivetti Dora) QWERTZ keyboard

 Mercedes (Olivetti Dora) QWERTZ keyboard

Adler Contessa

Underwood 378 (Olivetti Lettera 92)

 Alpina (with cursive font) ($215)

 Antares Domus

 Underwood with folding stand case

Gossen Tippa with metal (not leather) case

QWERTZ keyboard

Music keyboard Corona ($1550)

 ABC 3002

 Bambino (made by Optima)

 African mahogany Rheinmetall

Alba (AZERTY keyboard, toy typewriter)

 Nakajima ALL

 2 Hermes Ambassadors, one electric,

FREE to a good home (must go!)

2 Antares, sold separately

LP 44 (Antares) AZERTY keyboard

Gold-plated Royal Quiet De Luxe ($975)

Hermes Baby (aka Olivetti Lettera 82)

Everest K2 C

 Chevron (Nakajima)

 Citizen X3

(Danish-Scandinavian QWERTY keyboard)

Cole Steel

(optional top cover, or you can have both)

 Underwood Universal

IMC Primavera (QZERTY keyboard)

 Marathon 1000DLX

 Reader's Digest 1000

Torpedo 18 (early model) QWERTZ keyboard

(also available in crinkle green)

 Maritsa 11

Gossen Tippa Pilot

 Lemair Deluxe 1510 (Brother)

 Chevron Deluxe (Nakajima)

Olympia Splendid

 UNIS TBM (Olympia Traveller Deluxe)

QWERTZ, Yugoslavian keyboard

 Smith-Corona Ghia-designed Super G

Smith-Corona Golden Shield Courier

Imperial Messenger (2 available)

Brother Super Deluxe 1450

 Oliver Courier

and many, many more to come ...