Fully Restored Hermes Baby Ultra-Portable Typewriter | Brand-New Platen, New Rubber Feet & 10 CPI Pica Typeface

📖 Product Overview: The Ultimate Travel Companion

Discover the iconic Hermes Baby—expertly rescued, workshop-serviced, and upgraded with a brand-new recovered rubber platen. Celebrated worldwide for its ultra-flat design, lightweight frame (~4.25 kg / 9.3 lbs), and Swiss mechanical precision, this legendary model seamlessly blends mid-century elegance with everyday typing usability.

Meticulously overhauled at our specialized UK workshop, this machine has been semi-dismantled, segment-flushed, and fitted with brand-new replacement rubber feet to ensure fluid key action, desk stability, and dependable performance. Enhanced with a fresh dual Black/Red fabric ink ribbon, this Hermes Baby is ready to accompany creative writers, poets, and journal keepers wherever inspiration strikes.

📊 Mechanical & Functional Highlights

• 100% Fully Restored: Completely serviced, flushed, and precision-calibrated for crisp, fluid, and reliable keystrokes.

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Roller (£150 Value): Upgraded with a newly recovered high-grip rubber platen to ensure dramatically quieter typing, zero paper slippage, crisp print impressions, and long-term protection for your type metal.

• Brand-New Fitted Rubber Feet: All four rubber feet have been newly replaced to provide optimum grip, desk protection, and vibration absorption during typing.

• Fresh Dual Ribbon Installed: Pre-installed with a brand-new 10-meter Group 9 (GR9) Black/Red ink ribbon—poised to deliver vibrant, distinctive print from your very first page.

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Included Accessories

• Cosmetic Presentation: Very good vintage condition. The frame retains its famous, compact classic form factor, exhibiting natural age stains and minor authentic marks throughout from historic use.  

Marks near colour selection and on sides. 

• Carrying Lid: Includes its original matching top snap-on lid in very good condition, featuring light, authentic age marks and one main age mark.

• Portability: Exceptionally lightweight (~4.25 kg) with an ultra-thin profile, making it one of the easiest portable typewriters to travel with or store.

✍️ Keyboard & Typeface Specifications

• Brand & Model: Hermes Baby (Ultra-Portable).

• Keyboard Layout: Standard QWERTY Layout (intuitive and universal).

• Typeface / Font: Classic, bold 10 CPI Pica Typeface (10 Characters Per Inch)—delivering a prominent, clean, and highly legible text density ideal for manuscripts and storytelling.

• Ribbon Selector & Compatibility: Standard Group 9 (GR9) / 10-Meter fresh Black/Red Ribbon.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

🌟 Why This Hermes Baby Shines

The Hermes Baby is a timeless masterpiece of ultra-portable design. Professionally restored, fitted with a fresh dual-colour ribbon, upgraded with brand-new rubber feet, and fitted with a brand-new platen roller, it is a trusty companion for writers and collectors alike. Effortless to operate, charming to behold—it’s perfect for writing on the go or elevating your workspace.

🛡️ Peace of Mind & Workshop Mechanical Guarantee

✅ 1-Year Mechanical Guarantee | ✅ 14-Day Returns | ✅ Lifetime Aftercare | ✅ Featured on BBC's The Repair Shop

Every typewriter leaving our workshop represents the highest standard of vintage mechanical conservation. To ensure complete confidence in your investment, your typewriter is backed by our Comprehensive 12-Month Mechanical Guarantee, covering all internal mechanisms, segment linkages, and moving parts. Each machine is logged in our digital workshop registry under its unique serial number for full traceability and long-term support. Please read our dedicated workshop guarantee page on our website for complete details and peace of mind.

🌍 Global Shipping, Timelines & Tariff Information

• 🇺🇸 United States & 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Shipping (100% Free & All-Inclusive): Standard local & international shipping to the US and UK is completely free and included in the listed price. Furthermore, all US import tariffs and customs duties are fully prepaid by our workshop. There are absolutely zero hidden checkout fees, surprise border holds, or cash-on-delivery demands at your door.

• 🌐 International Shipping (Europe, Australia, Canada & Rest of World): We dispatch all website orders in less than 24 hours via fully tracked premium air courier directly to your door in 3 to 7 working days (with prompt EU dispatch and express delivery options available at checkout).

• Proprietary Global Packaging Protocol: To protect this Swiss classic during international transit, we mechanically lock down the carriage rail, insulate the frame in multi-layered shock-absorbing cushioning, and suspend the entire unit within a heavy-duty, double-walled shipping box.

🤝 The "Ready-to-Write" Package & Lifetime Support

• Unbox & Start Writing: Your Hermes Baby arrives pre-installed with your fresh Black/Red ink ribbon and our primary step-by-step startup instructions designed by our workshop team. Simply unbox, release the carriage lock, and begin typing immediately.

• Video Learning Academy: Your package includes a direct link to our dedicated YouTube video tutorial, teaching you exactly how to type on, care for, adjust the margins, and change ink ribbons on your specific Hermes Baby typewriter.

• Lifetime Technical Partnership: Your relationship with our workshop does not end at delivery. Every typewriter we sell comes with lifetime technical support. You receive direct email and video-call troubleshooting access to Walid and Joujou, the celebrated restoration experts from the BBC's The Repair Shop and major Netflix productions.

🎬 We prepared a video on how to use this Typewriter on YouTube.

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