Fully Restored Olympia Splendid 33 Ultra-Portable Typewriter | Rare Cursive Script Font & Brand-New Platen

📖 Product Overview: A Masterpiece of West German Engineering

Meet the Olympia Splendid 33—a robust, ultra-low profile West German classic freshly restored in an elegant Off-White finish with contrasting Grey keytops. Crafted with legendary West German precision, the Splendid 33 isn’t just built to look impressive; it is engineered to deliver world-class performance.

What makes this specific machine (#69) extraordinary is its rare Cursive Script Typeface. Typing on a Script Olympia feels like writing by hand with the crisp consistency of a precision machine—making it one of the most desirable ultra-portable models ever produced.

Meticulously overhauled for at least 8 hours at our specialized UK workshop, this stunning typewriter merges lightweight mobility with a heavy-duty typing feel. Enhanced with a brand-new recovered rubber platen, this museum-grade writing instrument is built to go the distance for novelists, poets, and serious collectors alike.

📊 Technical Specifications & Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olympia Splendid 33 (Ultra-Portable)

• Typeface: Olympia Curisve Script #69 , 11pts/Inch. 

• Origin: Made in Western Germany (famed for unrivaled mechanical durability)

• Keyboard Layout: Standard QWERTY Layout with Cursive Script keycaps

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional. Every internal component has been checked, calibrated, and tuned so that typing is fluid, snappy, and completely dependable.

Our Rigorous Workshop Restoration Upgrades:

• Deep-Flush Chemical Clean: Internally and externally stripped of 60 years of dried oil and dust, leaving the mechanism completely clear and responsive.

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber: Features a freshly recovered rubber platen roller (a £150 value). We invested heavily in this machine because it deserved a brand-new rubber layer, ensuring excellent paper feed friction, quiet keystrokes, and perfect ink impressions for decades to come.

• Vibrant Fresh Ribbon: Pre-installed with a brand-new, premium 10-meter GR1 (Group 1)  purple  ink ribbon.  

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Original Accessories

• Cosmetic Presentation: A spectacular visual example. The off-white body shell and classic grey keytops are thoroughly cleaned, polished, and bright. The outer frame shows only minor, authentic marks consistent with age, remaining in excellent condition compared to almost any other example we have worked on.

• Original Carrying lid: Included in good, authentic condition. One mark on it. 

• Bonus Ephemera: Comes complete with its original user manual, preserving its immense historical and collectible value.

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: Rare Cursive Script Font—delivering an elegant, hand-written aesthetic that adds a personal touch to letters, poetry, manuscripts, and special correspondence.

• Font Pitch: Standard Script sizing (~11 CPI), providing striking readability with beautiful text flow across 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 (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.

📖 Have questions about Brother typewriters or machine maintenance? Read our master guide: Typewriter FAQ: The Ultimate 100 Questions Answered

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