Parenthetical Corona in a bit of a state

An early Corona folding typewriter. It is in a bit of a state, rusty with a cracked platen and some missing bits.

Perhaps overpaid a bit for this one, but these early parenthetical Corona's are getting hard to find and it will be a nice project to completely re-build and discover how these early machines differ from the later solid-segment Corona's.

This machine still has the 'Standard Folding Typewriter' line in parentheses under the Corona branding - hence 'parenthetical' :)

It already has the pigeon-decal, wide spacebar and the fan-shaped ribbon-selector; so it is not of the very first 1912 variant of Corona, but a bit later. The serial number probably is 28806, that would make this the 8806th Corona (Standard Folding Typewriter) 3 that was made. That would have been in early 1913.

Normally the typebar-pivots are best kept clean and free from oil, but these first need to be made freely-moving again. All screws were also given a drop of sewing-machine oil and the little typewriter will be kept on the shelf for the oil to creep and help loosen all screws. 

A parenthetical Corona 'new' on the shelf - awaiting restoration and a full re-build.