Restored Red Olivetti Valentine Typewriter | Brand-New Platen & Rare Swedish Layout

📖 Product Overview: The Ultimate Mid-Century Design Icon

Experience the bold, revolutionary beauty of the Olivetti Valentine—arguably the most celebrated and culturally significant typewriter design of the 20th century. Co-designed by legendary Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass and Perry A. King in 1969, this iconic red typewriter is featured in the permanent design collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Crafted in Spain, this scarlet beauty merges radical retro-pop styling with modern, everyday reliability. Meticulously restored to perfect working order at our specialized UK workshop, this specific model is a highly collectible variant featuring a rare Swedish QWERTY keyboard layout and a brand-new recovered platen. It is a museum-worthy investment piece fully ready for a lifetime of daily writing.

📊 Technical Specifications & Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olivetti Valentine (Red).

• Designers: Ettore Sottsass & Perry A. King (1969).

• Origin: Made in Spain.

• Keyboard Layout: Swedish QWERTY Layout (ideal for writers in Swedish or collectors seeking a rare variant).

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional. Serviced to type with the absolute snappy precision and smooth carriage return it had on day one.

• Our Rigorous Workshop Restoration Upgrades:

  • Precision Mechanical Service: Stripped of decade-old grease, chemically cleaned, and meticulously adjusted to guarantee reliable, long-duration typing sessions.

  • Brand-New Recovered Platen Rubber: Fitted with a freshly recovered premium rubber platen (a £150 value). This guarantees perfect paper feeding, drastically reduces typing noise, and ensures crisp ink transfer with every single strike.

  • Spools & Ink: Fitted with a brand-new, high-density 10-meter black and red ink ribbon wound onto the typewriter's original vintage metal spools.

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Original Accessories

• Cosmetic Presentation: The vibrant scarlet red casing is in excellent condition. It features only minor, age-appropriate surface marks that are remarkably clean compared to almost any other unrestored Valentine on the market.

• Original Carrying Case/Lid: Includes the iconic matching red slip-on hard plastic lid in outstanding structural condition.

• Intact Rubber Straps: Unlike most vintage Valentines where the case straps have dry-rotted away, this case features fully intact, original flexible rubber clips that securely lock the typewriter inside for safe travel. All interior rubber buffer pads are present and complete.

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Classic PICA Typeface.

• Font Pitch: 10 Characters Per Inch (10 CPI / Pica size), producing highly legible, elegant, and timeless vintage print on the page.

🌍 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 (Sweden, Norway, Europe, Singapore, Australia & 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 competitive rates to Australia, Scandinavia, and remote corners of the world).

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

• Proprietary Global Packaging Protocol: The Valentine is famous but delicate. We protect this masterpiece by locking the carriage, packing the case inside out with shock-absorbing cushioning, and suspending the machine inside a heavy-duty, double-walled shipping carton to guarantee safe arrival.

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

• Unbox & Start Writing: Your typewriter arrives pre-installed with a fresh 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 Olivetti Valentine model.

• 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. Link below.