1966 Olympia SM9

1966 Olympia SM9

Acquiring a pre-1969 SM9 was the goal from the start. After that, things changed. In 1964 Olympia broke from the carriage-shift design that had carried...

1956 Groma Kolibri

1956 Groma Kolibri

The Kolibri's flat profile didn't start with this machine. In October 1936, an engineer named Leopold Ferdinand Pascher filed for a typewriter design he described...
1969 Remington Streamliner typewriter

1969 Remington Streamliner

The Streamliner sits at the bottom of a family tree that starts somewhere better. In 1959, Sperry Rand's Remington division put Carl Sundberg's design on......
1946 Remington-Rand Deluxe Model 5 typewriter

1946 Remington-Rand Deluxe Model 5

When most typewriter makers were stripping their machines down to bare bones to survive the Great Depression, Remington went the other direction with the Model...

1958 Olympia SM3 typewriter

1958 Olympia SM3

If American manufacturers were racing toward color and styling in the late 1950s, Olympia of West Germany was after something else entirely: precision. The SM3...

1959 Tower President XII typewriter

1959 Tower President XII

Not every great typewriter wore the name of the company that actually built it. The 1959 Tower President XII is one of those. “Tower” was...

1956 Smith-Corona Silent Super typewriter

1956 Smith-Corona Silent Super

By 1956, Smith-Corona was building machines that felt serious and stylish at once, and the Silent Super still turns up in more collections than almost...

1949 Royal Quiet DeLuxe typewriter

1949 Royal Quiet DeLuxe

Every writer’s biopic seems to reach for the same machine eventually, cast wide behind a typing hand. That’s the Royal Quiet DeLuxe, often called the...