Even with an asking price of 5 Euro, this did not appeal. The machine housing does make it look sleek and styled for its period - it is however all plastic. As this is (probably) a seventies' machine, the carrying case is also all plastic. Carrying case is not quite right of course, as it is only a cover that simply snaps over the typewriter.
(The Olivetti was sitting on top of an equally seventies' (or eighties') Erika machine in a zip-case. No pictures...)
Moving right along - we saw another peek of plastic as we lifted the lid of a typewriterish-looking case.
A nicely molded housing of an Adler typewriter with quite tall plastic keytops. Perhaps because it is bigger, or because it had a proper carrying case, but this one is three times as expensive as the Olivetti.
The supply of pre-war all-metal machines seems to have dried up for now - we've arrived in a plastic era here :-)
I'd'a grabbed that Adler, they're really nice. That Olivetti uses an impossible-to-find ribbon, though.
ReplyDeleteQuite large and German built, that Adler probably indeed is/was a fine machine. But not one to break my moratorium on new machines (should I encounter a croc-green Royal otoh... ;-)
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