Fully Restored Hermes Baby Ultra-Portable Typewriter | Brand-New Platen 

📖 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 mechanical precision, this legendary Swiss-designed model seamlessly blends mid-century elegance with everyday typing usability.

Meticulously overhauled at our specialized UK workshop, this machine has been semi-dismantled and deep-flushed to ensure fluid key action and dependable performance. Enhanced with a fresh WELL dual black/red 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-tuned for crisp, fluid, and reliable keystrokes.

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Roller (£150 Value): We fitted 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.

• Fresh Black 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.  

•  Rubber Feet: All newly fitted

🎨 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.  Main marks are on its base and marks on the edge of the base, seen from front and back. 

• Carrying Lid: Includes its original matching top lid/case in very good condition, featuring light, authentic age marks. One main mark on it. 

• 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: Elite Typeface (13characters per inch / 13CPI)—delivering a sharp, clean, and highly legible text density.

• Ribbon Compatibility: Standard Group 9 (GR9) / 10-Meter well inked 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  ribbon, and upgraded with a 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

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 6-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. We offer flexible, fully tracked premium shipping options calculated at checkout:

• Standard International Delivery: Safely delivered via premium air courier directly to your doorstep in 3 to 7 working days (with prompt EU dispatch and highly competitive rates to Australia and remote destinations).

• Express International Delivery Upgrade: Arrives at your door in just 1 to 3 working days for a small additional fee.

Proprietary Global Packaging Protocol: To protect this post-war British 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 Imperial Good Companion arrives pre-installed with your fresh purple 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 Imperial 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.

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