The New project from us, Underwood Standard 5 in New look that will look gorgeous in your Office or Living Room with this extra unique Burgundy Color which complements the nice old black.
The Machine was professionally serviced to perfectly perform its job as its rare to find any item in this nearly perfect full working order.
Nice Clear Keys that where professionally cleaned to look great.
Perfect for a heavy writer and some who likes to hammer the keys for hours as it will really sound like the 30s.
Typeface is Wide and Clear with Ultra rare font that is Taller in around 1 mm than usual Letters.
Serial:
2332XXX- 5
1928 production from the Number 5 Family.
Color:
the Usual Black on any Underwood 5 with newly painted Burgundy color that looks fabulous on it.
The whole machine has crackle effect from age and usage with a little crackles on newly painted burgundy as well.
We used Metal Spools that are painted in Burgundy as well.
Material:
Metal - Heavy Metal
Cosmetics:
Vintage condition that we made sure to deeply clean it with all efforts to restore it.
Appreciate making sure that you zoom all pictures to evaluate the condition of the typewriter.
Solid Rubber Feet are still in good condition and not worn. it is still balanced .
please bare in mind that item is 88 years old and will have lots of scratches and minor rusting on certain internal or external parts. we did our best to take out a lot of it but some are still deep inside.
We tried to usage a crack effect on the new Painting specially on the front side.
All Previous Labels from Underwood are erased from the front and above the Platen.
Keys have usage & age signs although we professionally tried to clean and polish each one.
Mechanics:
Excellent Working order.
Like all our typewriters, it was fully checked and serviced for direct usage for hours.
bell still dings & you will be amazed on how different it is to use such a typewriter.
Carriage and Paper lever will Perfectly perform their designated duties.
You can type in Colors, Black and Red with no problems.
Platen in ok condition and even the paper feeders as there is a small nail on right side but nothing affect its perfect working order.
The Spool Wheel on right perfectly working with no problems.
Minor Fading in Some Keys due to age specially "Q" and on the lower case due to the ribbon that should be a little wider to perfectly type a full letter all the time.
Only Problem is that Ribbon will allow you to type in both colors but the Red is sometime temporal and specially on lower case as it will leave a black mark on top of the letter.
Ribbon:
Newly fitted & spooled black and Red Ribbon on Metal Spools, although the Red is Temporal and sometimes leaves black marks on it instead of fully typed in red.
Case:
N/A
Keyboard:
Qwerty Keyboard
Packing of this Item:
It will Reach you in Double walled Box and will be packed in a professional way to reach you at any end of the world.
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