Fully Restored Olivetti-Underwood Lettera 32 Typewriter | Rare PICA Font (10 CPI) & Brand-New Platen

📖 Product Overview: A Distillation of Italian Design & Precision

Designed in Italy by the legendary Marcello Nizzoli, the Olivetti-Underwood Lettera 32 is globally recognized as one of the finest portable typewriters ever built. Combining sleek mid-century aesthetics with a snappy, low-profile mechanical action, it ranks squarely in our Top 3 Most Reliable Typewriters of All Time.

Meticulously overhauled for 4 to 6 hours at our UK workshop, this particular machine features the desirable, clean PICA Typeface (10 Characters Per Inch) and is equipped with a brand-new, freshly recovered rubber platen roller (£150 value).

Complete with its original carrying case, original instruction manual, an original Olivetti Brush set. 

📊 Technical Specifications & Workshop Restoration Data

• Brand & Model: Olivetti-Underwood Lettera 32

• Design Origin: Made in Italy (Engineered by Marcello Nizzoli)

• Keyboard Layout: American QWERTY Layout

• Mechanical Condition: 100% Fully Functional. Deep-cleaned, chemically flushed, and precision-tuned for long, effortless typing sessions.

Workshop Restoration & Hardware Upgrades:

• Brand-New Fitted Platen Rubber (£150 Value): Upgraded with a newly recovered high-grip rubber platen roller to ensure whisper-quiet keystrokes, zero paper slippage, crisp print density, and long-term protection for your type metal.

• Fresh Dual-Color Ribbon Installed: Fitted with a brand-new Group 4 (GR4) 10-meter black & red ink ribbon on correct spools—delivering sharp, vibrant impressions from day one.

• Complete Internal Servicing: Segment deep-flushed, carriage rails degreased, and escapement calibrated for smooth, fluid operation.

🎨 Cosmetic Condition & Historical Ephemera Included

• Cosmetic Presentation: The iconic original Italian teal-green metal frame is in excellent vintage condition with only minimal, character-rich signs of gentle age.

• Carrying Case: Includes its original zip-up carrying case in functional, authentic condition with natural age patina specially on the inside. Plus, the inner pocket is worn on the side. 

• Original Manual & brushes: Comes with the original user instruction manual, a pack of brushes by Olivetti. 

✍️ Typeface & Font Details

• Typeface Style: PICA Typeface—offering a sharp, geometric, and distinctively modern print style.

• Font Pitch: 10 Characters Per Inch (10 CPI / PICA size), giving your prose, poetry, or correspondence a bold, clean, and highly readable look on the page.

📋 Quick Specifications Overview

Why This Olivetti Lettera 32 Stands Out

This machine is more than just a writing tool—it’s an icon of 20th-century Industrial Design. With its original frame and fresh platen upgrade, it offers an unmatched combination of beauty, tactile feedback, and reliability. Whether drafting your next manuscript or styling an executive workspace, this Lettera 32 brings effortless Italian elegance directly to your fingertips.

🎬 We prepared a step-by-step video tutorial on how to use and care for this typewriter on YouTube. Link included in package.

🌍 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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