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1970s Working Silver Reed SR 200 Portable Typewriter with Original Carry Case

Here we have a 1970’s, working Silver Reed SR 200 vintage, manual portable typewriter finished in bright red with a black carry case. After some research on the serial number, it looks like the typewriter was produced in the 1970’s in Japan. Even though this Silver Reed SR 200 typewriter was made in the 1970’s, […]

Late 1970s Silver-Reed Silverette II Portable Typewriter – Case – QWERTY (Swedish keys) – Made In Japan

Late 1970s Silver-Reed Silverette II Portable Typewriter – Case – QWERTY (Swedish keys) – Made In Japan. Fully functioning Silver-Reed Silverette II manual portable typewriter manufactured in the 1970s, in Japan. The comfortable keys are responsive and light making typing on it effortless and enjoyable. The backspace, carriage return lever, the bell, the shift keys, […]

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Welcome to Classic Typewriters, operated by Simon & Susan Davidson Simon has been collecting manual typewriters since the 1980’s and has a passion for them and he has many brands and models of typewriters in his private collection, the typewriters available on this website are from this collection, as there are simply far too many […]

Typewriter Ribbon Colours

Some typewriter ribbons were inked in black and red stripes, each being half the width and running the entire length of the ribbon. A lever on most machines allowed switching between colors, which was useful for bookkeeping entries where negative amounts were highlighted in red. The red color was also used on some selected characters […]

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