For those who have an Underwood 5 typewriter as featured in the movie Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures, 2000), it bears saying that Forrester (Sean Connery) would admonish you to:

Punch the keys, for God's sake!

https://www.atticpaper.com/proddetail.php?prod=1958-royal-future-typewriter-ad-two-pages

The Olivetti Valentine is one of Pete Doherty's favorites.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/usjqn3/does_anybody_know_what_typrewirter_that_is/

Library Typewriter Display Case Project by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1kdjy9u/anyone_have_internal_pictures_of_the_hermes_3000/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1kbp3bb/corona_3_with_case_key/

Corona 3 cases had very straightforward keys with a simple 1-2mm numb at the far end.

The character Radar O'Reilly apparently had an early model Royal standard typewriter in MAS*H.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1kb71ni/fixed_typewriter_plus_a_new_one/

Found a silver plate with a black letter "G" inside a Royal H.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1hnsfhn/i_bought_some_trash_off_amazon/

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/pete-doherty-to-anyone-struggling-with-addiction-just-hang-on-for-more-than-ten-years-i-ve-been-powerless-but-there-s-a-way-out-9876331.html

Peter Doherty: “I have 40 typewriters and I’m not ashamed of it”<br><br>LISTEN @maryannehobbs : https://t.co/0Z9fvAYCM9 pic.twitter.com/OCaHtPqJ1N

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) May 22, 2016

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03vxbqj

Peter Doherty: “I have 40 typewriters and I’m not ashamed of it”

https://www.printables.com/model/1277687-underwood-portable-4-bank-typewriter-replacement-f

Found via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k8lh2v/i_designed_a_3dprintable_replacement_spool_cap/

https://www.printables.com/model/1277700-underwood-portable-typewriter-ribbon-spool-cap-thi

Found via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k8lh2v/i_designed_a_3dprintable_replacement_spool_cap/

Rubber feet recommended via u/scottconnors at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k93kbs/1938_royal_model_o_odette/

http://mytypewriter.com/index.aspx<br /> MyTypewriter.com

https://thepresshotel.com/

Found via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k92kuy/press_hotel_portland_maine_usa/

Schreibmaschinen Farbband wiederbeleben / "nachfüllen" by [[Badulai]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/15x4fy1/as_requested_by_someone_tutorial_on_how_to_wd40/

https://www.flitz.com/

William Ebbink, Tom Hansen, Wayne Bouchard, and Blake Banner swear by this. All seem to like it for metal and plastic, and all seem to like it for paint on typewriters as well.

via https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/956242590027849

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k6zfvl/help_with_id_i_cant_find_anything_online/

via u/Pinkbumblebee-666

Peter V. Tytell, a Typewriter Whisperer, Is Dead at 74 by [[Richard Sandomir]]

Smith Corona Typewriter Type Bar Link Clevis Repair Broken Key by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

LaPierre, Suzanne S. “BiblioTech: Typewriters in Libraries.” Computers in Libraries 45, no. 2 (March 2025): 24–26. https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/mar25/index.shtml.

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/okjtab/typewriter_pad_recs/?sort=old

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C3DFX8U/

Stay-in-Place Machine Mat - 11" x 14" - Calms Vibration and Dampens Noise. Great for Sergers. Made in USA. for $13.99

https://www.antikeychop.com/mostwantedtypewriters

Turboplaten Type by [[Daniel Marleau]]

Nashville Typewriter tells the story of almost taking over the concept of Turboplaten.

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k0p2ha/turboplaten/ on 2025-04-16.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k0p2ha/turboplaten/

Nashville Typewriter tells the story of almost taking over the concept of Turboplaten.

https://akblongs.nl/

Per Pelicram, AKB Longs does platen recovering for typewriters in Europe: Send an email to rollen@akblongs.nl Prices are about 40€ + VAT for portable platens + shipping both ways

reply to u/No-Entertainer-7217 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k45o89/typewriters_needing_new_ribbons/

"Working but needs new ribbon" is almost always seller's code for I have no idea if it really works, but I'm going to try to sell you this machine for the price of a fully functioning machine that was just serviced by a professional shop despite the fact that I just took it out of grandpa's barn and I'm not sure if the mouse inside is dead or not. Also, I can't afford $10 to replace an old ribbon to truly participate in the charade of the price I'm going to try to fleece you with.

Educate yourself a bit: <br /> - https://boffosocko.com/2025/03/29/first-time-typewriter-purchases-with-specific-recommendations-for-writers/ - buying typewriter ribbon: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1 and https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/#Typewriter%20Ribbon - typewriter 101: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtHauPh529XYHI5QNj5w9PUdi89pOXsS

If you want to tell people Tom Hanks taught you to change a typewriter ribbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBbsNKaVAB0. There are lots of other YouTube videos out there for specific machines as well as reviews of them.

You can definitely test out a machine without ribbon, but if they're trying to charge you over $100 for a machine, it really should have fresh ribbon.

https://www.recordholders.org/en/records/typing.html

19,890 pages/1000 ribbons is approximately 19 pages per ribbon.

Olympia Typewriter Spacers 3D printed with TPU Filament by [[Subham Kumar]]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7009800

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k3jhx1/storage_hunter_simulator_overwood/

"Overwood" typewriter in Storage Hunter Simulator. (An obvious take on an Underwood typewriter, specifically an Underwood Champion.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k2rus1/typewriter_in_singularity/

Dirty/rusted typewriter seen in the video game Singularity

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k322dc/mafia_2002/

Typewriter in video game Mafia (2002).

https://typecast.munk.org/2023/04/24/how-to-properly-describe-the-condition-of-a-typewriter/

Typewriter expert shares 8 helpful advice to take care of your typewriter. by [[Mr. & Mrs. Vintage Typewriters]]

Tipp-Ex correction paper

Don't bathe your typewriter

Leave oil to the professionals. "Never oil it." (Wow!) - I get why he says this, but...

via u/scmowner

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jyr2hc/the_best_way_to_get_rid_of_all_this_gunk/

Colloquial advice to use 4" mascara brushes as a replacement for a segment pick for cleaning out typewriters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jyu00h/whats_the_manual_typewriter_market_like_in_your/

Baseball Scoresheets for Typewriters by [[Louis Spirito]]

https://typecast.munk.org/2023/02/17/1967-womda-typewriter-typefaces-royal-fonts/

quote via the reliable u/ahelper

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jvgm5z/feed_pawl_not_engaging_ratchet/

Mathematics with Typewriters

What you're suggesting is certainly doable, and was frequently done in it's day, but it isn't the sort of thing you want to subject yourself to while you're doing your Ph.D. (and probably not even if you're doing it as your stress-releiving hobby on the side.)

I several decades of heavy math and engineering experience and really love typewriters. I even have a couple with Greek letters and other basic math glyphs available, but I wouldn't ever bother with typing out any sort of mathematical paper using a typewriter these days.

Unless you're in a VERY specific area that doesn't require more than about 10 symbols, you're highly unlikely to be pleased with the result and it's going to require a huge amount of hand drawn symbols and be a pain to add in the graphs and illustrations. Even if you had a 60's+ Smith-Corona with a full set of math fonts using their Chageable Type functionality, you'd spend far more time trying to typeset your finished product than it would be worth.

You can still find some typewritten textbooks from the 30s and 40s in math and even some typed lecture notes collections into the 1980s and they are all a miserable experience to read. As an example, there's a downloadable copy of Claude Shannon's master's thesis at MIT from 1940, arguably one of the most influential and consequential masters theses ever written, that only uses basic Boolean Algebra and it's just dreadful to read this way: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 (Incidentally, a reasonable high schooler should be able to read and appreciate this thesis today, which shows you just how far things have come since the 1940s.)

If you're heavily enough into math to be doing a Ph.D. you not only should be using TeX/LaTeX, but you'll be much, much, much happier with the output in the long run. It's also a professional skill any mathematician should have.

As a professional aside, while typewriten mathematical texts may seem like a fun and quirky thing to do, there probably isn't an awful lot of audience that would appreciate them. Worse, most professional mathematicians would automatically take a typescript verison as the product of a quack and dismiss it out of hand.

tl;dr in terms of The Godfather: Buy the typewriter, leave the thesis in LaTeX.

a reply to u/Quaternion253 RE: Typing a maths PhD thesis using a typewriter at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1js3cs5/typing_a_maths_phd_thesis_using_a_typewriter/

The majority of American machines (Royal, Remington, Smith-Corona) are 6 lines per inch and either 10 characters per inch (pica) or 12 CPI (elite). My guess would be that you'll see about 90% of people's machines covered across these specs with a roughly 60/40 split for pica vs. elite when it comes to planning print runs.

Most European machines are like the Olympias and are labeled as 2.3 m/m which when multiplied out (25.4mm/inch x 1 character/2.3mm) gives 11.043 CPI. Generally they're also 6 lines per inch. In the US, most of the common (and still popular) imported typewriters are going to be the Olympia SM2, SM3, SM4, SM7, and SM9s and the three incarnations of the Hermes 3000.

I've got a small collection of 50 mostly American machines across six decades with a few less common typefaces including Vogue, Gothic, and Congress Elite if you need some machines for nearby testing (I'm in Altadena, though temporarily still displaced). Most of my available machines are listed at https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7248

There are definitely some smaller 16, 18, 20, and even 24 CPI machines, but they tend to have come on the larger Olympia standards which weigh in at 30-40 pounds and are unlikely to be lugged to ballparks the way that smaller portables and ultraportables might be. There are some larger format 6 CPI machines, but they tend to be much rarer and are more often found on 1970s Smith-Coronas. If you want to go crazy, I'd guess you're aware of Ted Munk's collection of typefaces and catalogs that can be found at: https://typecast.munk.org/category/typewriter-typestylesfonts/

Incidentally, for fun, Bill Madden's book Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir is set for release tomorrow.

Since you sound like a local Dodgers fan, I'd love to invite you to the upcoming SoCal Type-in I'm planning for Saturday, May 10th at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena: https://boffosocko.com/2025/03/25/youre-invited-to-a-southern-california-type-in/ I hope you'll have some final versions available by then. 😍

reply posted 2025-04-01 at https://old.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jn2475/yes_tom_hanks_does_schlep_a_typewriter_to_ball/

If you're curious about some of the technical details and how the are affected by the distribution of typefaces and sizes, I laid out some of them the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jn2475/comment/mks9rbc/

Lou also has some great examples of scorekeeping across display sizes and level of data in his offerings at https://thirty81press.com/.

The broader issue for most scorers is the limitation to 8.5 x 11" paper which is the most common page size for the ubiquitous portable and ultraportable typewriters from the mid-century. While there are some portables with carriages and platens that might accomodate up to 12" wide paper, they're not super common.

To get machines with wider platens to get 11x14 or 11x17, you're going to need the significantly larger standard machines and unless you're rich enough to have a suite that you can securely store one in or a journalist with your own booth, not many baseball fans are going to cart a 35-45+ pound typewriter with them to all their games. Though this wouldn't prevent the fan viewing at home from scoring this way easily. My example above was done on a standard width carriage on a standard machine, but I did have several options to do it on a 12", 14", and even two 16" standard typewriters. Interestingly, most of my larger carriage machines are elite 12/6 (12CPI with 6 lines/inch) formats, and I don't think Lou has designed yet for that standard which would allow for an additional 15 characters to be distributed amidst the columns (while still keeping a minimum of 1/2" margins for some balanced white space). I'll be tinkering around with some of this myself in the coming week or so on 11x14" paper using a 15" wide platen on an elite machine to see how things might look.

Perhaps a modified format at 8.5 x 11 that alternates the teams and splits a 12 inning game format across three sheets so that the typist can type down a single page without swapping sheets every half inning and realigning their page every time? But this would cause a lot of formating change versus traditional layouts to do so.

I've also been tinkering with using small space characters like the - and the _ to indicate data (with or without the use of the variable line spacing mechanism) for things like tracking RBIs. The underline is particularly useful for this in Lou's three space layout.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jej2zl/baseball_scorecard_for_typewriters_lad_chc_3182025/

https://typewriterrevolution.com/the-typewriter-manifesto/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jm7c02/is_it_better_to_use_mineral_spirits_or_lighter/?sort=old

quote from Nashville Typewriter

Unda-Wunda Logo mark trademark<br />

Serial Number 72129754 filed on 12th Oct 1961<br /> Registration Number 740738 registered on 13th Nov 1962

https://www.trademarkia.com/logomark-72129754

https://www.trademarkia.com/logomark-72129754

Serial number 72129755 filed on 1961-10-12<br /> Registration number 744564 registered on 1963-01-29<br /> Expired 1987-09-01

https://www.trademarkia.com/unda-wunda-72129755

Standard Typewriters - Underwood 5

Portable Typewriters - Hermes 3000 - Smith-Corona Clipper, Sterling, Silent, Silent Supers (5 Series) - Royal Quiet De Luxe - Olympia SM2, SM3, SM4 (Carriage shift)

Ultra Portables - Not recommended

Typewriters for Writers by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20190305042816/http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-cat.html#tw

A Type-In to Say Goodbye to a New England Institution by Scott Cacciola and Jillian Freyer for New York Times 2025-03-24

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jlg0l9/new_typewriter_first_typewriter/

<br /> via https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e906fe0-3ec5-0137-4dbb-05753e085b4b

How Mid-Century 'Emojis' Were Created on Typewriters by [[Lori Dorn]]

Two poets to open a typewriter and book shop in Garfield Park by [[Sophie Young]]

recently opened typewriter repair shops, 2025

Usually it might have been typewriter shop, gun shop, then cell phone store, so it's intriguing to see the opposite ordering.

There's a few things going on here. Generally at SGW a gray Olympia SM3 in excellent "looking" condition like this one will go for $120-150. This one is also hiding a script typeface which will usually add another $110-150 of value, which would put it at the $300 mark. I'm sort of surprised that the original winner didn't actually pay for it at this price as that's likely what someone would honestly pay for one like this. (It's also possible that they forgot they won or didn't know and didn't pay for it in time too.)

On today's listing, it's far, far more likely that someone wants it and either couldn't get it or pay for it now at the price that it was going to go for in a reasonable auction. They used a throw away accout to make an outrageous bid in hopes that in a week it'll be relisted and no one will notice the script typeface and it'll go for well under $200. (It won't.) This happens incredibly frequently for some of the less common typewriters. Usually it's machines with script or uncommon typefaces or uncommon character sets. Recent auctions for a gold plated Olympia SM3 and a Yellow Royal FP with a Gothic typeface come to mind. I've seen this also happen four or five times in a row before someone ultimately pays for a machine at some reasonable price.

Honestly, SGW should have a policy that the second and third runners up for auctions that don't get paid for by winners should have the right of last refusal on auctions like this to prevent this sort of "gaming" of the system. If you search back in this sub, you'll see this topic coming up every couple of weeks with the same discussions over and over. The common wisdom is that a SGW auction isn't gone until the machine doesn't pop up anymore and actually "sold". And even then, if you wait a week or two, you'll usually see the exact machine pop up less than a month later on eBay being listed by the winner for an exorbitant amount (almost always without having done any additional cleaning or restoration work on it aside from maybe dusting it out.)

Maybe we should add the tag #SGWgaming to all these conversations to make them easier to find?

reply to https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jift5r/listing_on_the_right_was_a_month_ago_listing_on/

The long, thin spring-loaded metal flap labeled the "paper conductor" on the SM3 and SM4 and labeled the "erasing table" on the SM2 are all the same part. They serve a few functions.

They can be used for erasing mistakes certainly and help to keep dust and debris from going into the carriage and rollers.

The "paper conductor" description sounds like a fun translation of something from German into English, but this part also prevents the paper which goes under the paper bail and forces it up and back to the paper table and the paper support. Presumably without it, a slightly curved piece of paper might be misrouted to go right back into the platen a second time as the paper advances.

This sort of paper conductor/dust shield can also be found on some later 1960s+ Smith-Corona (SCM) machines. For example, see the Galaxie II which calls that part the erasure table.

India's nostalgic passion for old typewriters by [[Kamala Thiagarajan]]

The best ‘low-tech’ spycraft tricks by [[Frank Swain]]

Kremlin security agency to buy typewriters 'to avoid leaks' by [[BBC News]]

Baraniuk, Chris. “‘We Use Them Every Day’: In Some Parts of the US, the Clack of Typewriter Keys Can Still Be Heard.” BBC, March 22, 2025. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250321-the-people-who-still-use-typewriters.

Royal Typewriter Family by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

In Typewriter Video Series Episode 321 Joe and Kevin explore the Royal Heritage, Empress and Safari.

The Royal Futura and subsequent Royal Heritage were successor machines to the Royal Quiet De Luxe.

The Empress and the Safari have a sort of Jetsons (1962-1963) aesthetic.

Colloquial collection of typewriter fan names by Kevin and Joe:<br /> Cult of Hermes<br /> Royal Family<br /> Remington Rebels<br /> Smith-Corona Silent Superiors

2025-03-21: edit (spelling)

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jgepoi/those_of_you_who_have_replaced_a_drawband_on_an/

via https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jgg4kh/royal_kmm_extra_column_of_keys/miyumvn/

Raymond Chandler's Typewriter - Mark Coggins by [[Mark Coggins]]

Raymond Chandler was not a touch typist.

variations of the Olivetti Studio 44

https://www.typewriters101.com/

Beyond the Type-In by [[Woz Flint]] ​

If you're a more serious writer, you're sure to find a smoother and better experience with a standard typewriter, but they're slightly larger and heavier (~30 pounds vs. ~15-22 pounds) than the portables. These are usually the ones I recommend if you're writing for several hours and have a dedicated space for your writing. Standards aren't as popular with most collectors, so they also tend to be less expensive.

I really love my Royal KMG, HH, and FP and my Remington Standard and Remington 17 which are all serious machines. Here are some of the other more common standards for serious writers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r3533cSZ38

Reply to u/RetailThrowAway69 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1je4owq/new_typewriter_for_a_keyboard_warrior_of_20_years/

Almost every portable and ultra portable typewriter made from the 1930s onward came with a case that the typewriter locked into. On almost all of these the top of the typewriter case was easily removeable from the base with a spring loaded locking mechanism of some sort. This allowed the user to sit in almost any chair and use the typewriter on their lap. The thin case bottoms prevent dirt and oil from soiling one's clothes.

Beginning in the late 60s/early 70s some manufacturers began making plastic tops that clipped onto the typewriter bodies, but often these are more brittle and prone to breaking/shattering due to the type and age of the plastic. (I'm looking at you Remington Streamliners...)

Our cat used to love "hiding" in the wooden case tops of my 1940s and 1950s Smith-Coronas (Clippers, Sterlings, Silents, Silent Supers).

It's really only the larger and much heavier standard machines that didn't come with cases at all.

https://www.thingiverse.com/etkaar/collections/43102335/things

reply to u/andrebartels1988 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jcsp6t/rant_over_online_sellers/

No, they're either ignorant or actively trying to hide the fact that their machine was bought for $5 at a yard sale and they're trying to match the pricing of pro shops that have cleaned, oiled, adjusted and repaired a machine which far exceeds the misery they're selling because they have absolutely no idea what goes into a good machine.

People doing the work to show type samples and video of their machines are usually far, far more legitimate. These people are also going to give you $2 of new ribbon for free with purchase.

Without a type sample or video, all but the rarest machines aren't worth more than $20.

I've never used them. They're probably alright. Looks like they're specializing in engraved spools more than anything. My guess is that they're buying ribbon in bulk from Baco or Fine Line and passing along the cost and adding some additional profit.

Here's typical bulk pricing:

nylon ribbon $0.10 - $0.15/yard silk ribobn $0.33 to $0.40/yard cotton ribbon $0.25/yard If you can get a spool's worth of nylon ribbon (16 yards) for about $1.50 to $3, do you really want to pay $8 or more plus shipping? If I'm going to do this (usually for small quantities of custom colored ribbon), I'm going to buy it from a local shop to help support them and keep them open.

There are obviously lots of options you can choose from, ultimately you'll do what works best/quickest/cheapest for you.

Type Shop, EP. 20: Ribbon Colors by [[Typewriter Chicago]]

blue/pink is an excellent color combination as is the blue/green. blue/purple isn't as strong a differentiated color combination as one might hope.

Typewriter Chicago used to carry orange, but doesn't any longer. Maybe again in the future?

Tested 100s of heavy desk typewriters, Here is the top 5 revealed. by [[Mr & Mrs Vintage Typewriters]]

Top Five Standard Typewriters:<br /> - Imperial 55 - Imperial 70 (after this they went to cheaper plastic parts); removable carriage, swappable typefaces; removeable core - Hermes Ambassador - removable carriage - Underwood Standards, esp. 5 - Royal 10 (carriage shift); (and subsequent incarnations like the KH, KMM, KMG, HH, FP) - Olympia SG1 (the "crown jewel" of desktop typewriters)

Also rans: - Olivetti Lexicon, Olivetti Graphica - Contintental m40 & m20 - Mercedes

Cleaning with Air Compressors (testing portable air compressors) by [[Just My Typewriter]]

Sarah Everett uses: - Porter Cable portable air compressor (loud, high powered) - Uses smaller USB chargeable one for smaller jobs: PeroBuno mini car vacuum and compressor with attachments

Sarah Everett recommends the Vogma air duster / air compressor for cleaning out her typewriters. https://amzn.to/3FjqZ76

How to Clean a Typewriter (Apartment Friendly Guide!) by [[Just My Typewriter]]

Remington 5: Learning how to replace feed rollers by [[Just My Typewriter]]

The Texas Bucket List - The Typewriter Repairman

Cool Spaces: A shop from another era

The Apothecary's Typewriter by Scott K on 2012-12-14

How I display my typewriters (and a Q&A) by [[Just My Typewriter]]

Sarah uses WD-40 on the black enamel of older 20s-30s era typewriters to clean and polish them.

reply to u/bethcano at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1j3z646/whats_a_fair_price_these_days_for_a_hermes_3000/

In the US I've been seeing them go for around $250 based only on photos without any additional information about whether they work or other condition.

Platforms like eBay and ShopGoodwill.com will allow you to search for actual sales (see the advanced settings) and this will give you a much better picture of what the prices are versus people listing them for several hundred more (usually to match the prices of professional shops that are listing theirs in cleaned, oiled, and adjusted condition). (Remember when shopping: Condition is king!)

See:

• https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/listing?st=hermes%20typewriter&sg=&c=&s=&lp=0&hp=999999&sbn=&spo=false&snpo=false&socs=false&sd=false&sca=true&caed=3%2F5%2F2025&cadb=90&scs=false&sis=false&col=1&p=1&ps=40&desc=false&ss=0&UseBuyerPrefs=true&sus=true&cln=1&catIds=&pn=&wc=false&mci=false&hmt=false&layout=grid&ihp=
• https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=hermes+3000+typewriter&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

Keep in mind that prices may be dramatically different in your country based on how ubiquitous they were when they were originally manufactured.

Expect to add $150-200+ for script or rarer typefaces, and another \~$150 if the platen has been recovered.

$550 would not be uncommon if purchasing a pica or elite Hermes 3000 with a standard typeface in generally good cosmetic shape that's been professionally cleaned, oiled, and adjusted by a shop.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/thakseman1

thakseman1

Local writers host ‘typewriter revivals’ by [[Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin]]

RARE Japanese Toshiba Typewriter by [[Typewriter Collector]] David Herrera