Vintage typewriters, vetted for collectors.
Specs, era, and the all-important ribbon-spool group on 36 manual machines across 12 marques — paired with dated buying picks over real eBay listings (which one to buy, and why) and the failure modes worth checking before you bid.
found: one Lettera 32 — red, Italian, 1963, and entirely mine.
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The makers
12marques, six decades of manual machines. The note flags the two houses whose ribbon spool isn’t the Group 1 universal.
All 36 models →The connoisseur’s three
Where the typecast community keeps landing after a decade of comparison: the engineer’s machine, the value pick, and the design icon.
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A machine you keep on the shelf and still put to work on a Sunday.
An object with presence
Cast steel and painted enamel, a silhouette nothing made this century touches. It earns the square foot it occupies.
It still does the one thing
No update, no battery, no notification. Load a sheet and it writes until the ribbon runs dry.
It holds — and gains — value
The right model in tested-working order is a quietly appreciating thing. We flag the ones the market is chasing.
Field notes
Plain-English buying guides — written for the first-timer, double-checked by the collector.
All buying guides →Have a typewriter to sell?
Tell us what it is, whether it types and what you’d like for it, with a few photos. We’ll reply by email with an offer. No listing to write, no fees.