Serial number: 1477358
Professional Elite No. 41 typeface, 11 pitch, 2.3m/m, 6 lines/inch, bichrome, carriage shift, tabulator
American keyboard, 44 keys, 88 characters
green crinkle paint, black plastic keys
Manufactured in Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Found at The Predecessors while typewriter hunting in Anacortes, WA. It was paired with another similar green Olympia SM3, but I immediately picked this one up because of its beautiful and uncommon typeface.
It’ll need several new parts including rubber, but this portends to be a fantastic typewriter.
Holy Moses
That’s fantastic
That is so appealing
Nice find!
Fun to think about who would order such a thing. Was it a pharmacist who wanted more legible print for small pill bottle labels? Maybe an engineering firm who used it for their blueprints? Or was it Susie Homemaker who just wanted a pretty typeface for her letters?
What a BEAUTY!
One day I’ll obtain a machine like this beauty
Way to go !
Oh my GOD.
I picked up a grey SM3 with Professional Elite in Salt Lake City. It’s one of my favorite typefaces and I obviously haven’t got it on the database yet
Oh wow i need one of these, the typeface is beautiful !
What a pretty typeface!
I picked up an SM4 with the same typeface and I love it so, so much.
Interesting that it’s bichrome. The lower case j and y appear scootched up a bit to keep out of the red.
This is not my era but that typeface is so WONDERFUL that I now want one. Wow. Just perfect.
My favorite pangram is “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs” lol
In all seriousness that looks awesome.
Do you live in WA State? Kennydale (Renton/Newcastle) here.
The 1955 green SM3 of my youth had this typeface! Purchased by my father in Cleveland Ohio, it was the first of 4 Olympias we purchased as a family. (Each was purchased as we went off to college, (1970, 1972 and 1976 (Electric)) The 1955 was given to my grandmother when she lost her sight, so that she could still send legible letters, then lost. The 1970 is still with my elder sister. The remaining are now lost. Just the other year, I acquired a 1955 SM3 in great shape, but doesn’t have the typeface. You have quite the find!