These adverts offer some guide to US portable typewriter prices in a very competitive market in the second half of 1964:
This is the Antares-style Underwood, most commonly an Underwood 18 but also a Golden Touch Underwood Diplomat, Avona Jet, an Underwood 10 and Underwood 19. You will need to read the next edition of ETCetera to find out how Olivetti-Underwood got its hands on this Antares design and exactly where these machines were made.
The Lettera 32
This model is most common in Australia as the Oliver Courier. It also sold as the Japy (or Beaucourt) and the Swissa Piccola.
"Olivetti type" means a Lettera 32
These are Smith-Coronas, the Scout made in England.
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And today, most of them cost less in dollar amounts -- not considering inflation. How the mighty have fallen.
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