Fully Restored Olympia SM3 Portable Typewriter | Uncommon Grey Frame, Dark Burgundy Keys, Brand-New Platen & Rare Congress Pica #83 Typeface

📖 Product Overview & Typographic Rarity: The Bold & Expressive Olympia SM3 When we thought we had seen it all, this exceptional machine arrived bearing a remarkably bold, well-designed, and large typeface. Presenting an extraordinary Olympia SM3 portable typewriter, featuring the uncommon Congress Pica #83 typeface—delivering a large, clear imprint packed with exceptional character. Rejuvenated to modern performance standards at our Milton Keynes workshop by Walid & Joujou (featured restoration experts on BBC’s The Repair Shop), this machine merges legendary West German engineering with rare typographic artistry.

This particular model boasts an uncommon, highly attractive original grey frame contrasted with striking dark burgundy keycaps, and arrives complete with its original wooden carrying case and factory manual. Fully restored and optimized for modern writers, collectors, and design aesthetes, it is built to deliver smooth, tactile performance for decades to come.

📊 Technical Specifications & Workshop Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olympia SM3 (De Luxe Series).

 • Manufacturing Origin: Precision-engineered in Wilhelmshaven, Western Germany.

 • Keyboard Layout: American English QWERTY Layout featuring striking dark burgundy keycaps.

 • Mechanical Excellence: Fully restored to impeccable working order. Every function has been expertly serviced, adjusted, and tested, ensuring extra-smooth typing performance for extended daily writing sessions

. • Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber (£150 Value): Upgraded with a freshly recovered rubber platen roller to cushion key strikes, reduce typing noise, and ensure pristine paper feed friction.

• New Internal Washers: Fresh internal washers applied throughout the frame for enhanced mechanical stability, sound dampening, and long-term longevity.

 • Ribbon System: Equipped with a brand-new 10-meter black-and-red fabric ribbon on spools, ready for immediate use from the first keystroke. Would recommend using purple ink or any well inked ribbon to get the best of the prints of this typeface due to its size. 

✍️ Typeface & Typographic Highlights

• Typeface Style: Uncommon Congress Pica #83 Typeface (Large Pica Scale, approximately 10 points per inch).

• Visual Impact: Renders text with a distinctive, bold, and elegant flair that brings unmatched character and presence to every page.

🎨 Cosmetic Presentation & Included Original Accessories

 • Visual Presentation: The uncommon original grey frame remains in excellent condition, showcasing minimal age-related marks while perfectly preserving its vintage authenticity and visual appeal.

 • Original Wooden Case: Supplied with its authentic original wooden carrying case, featuring gentle signs of wear on both the interior and exterior that add to its genuine vintage charm and collectability.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

🛡️ 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 1-Year 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 West German 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 outer shipping carton.

🤝 The "Ready-to-Write" Package & Lifetime Support • Unbox & Start Writing: Your Olympia SM3 arrives pre-installed with its fresh ribbon, original wooden case, manual, cleaning brush, and our primary step-by-step startup instructions. 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 Olympia SM3 model. • Lifetime Technical Partnership: 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 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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