Marcello Nizzoli - Olivetti, Studio 44 - Typewriter - 1950-1960

The Studio 44 is a famous semi-standard mechanical typewriter made by Olivetti in 1952.

Like new, in its original case.

The Italian model has a QZERTY keyboard, as is common on Italian machines (except for modern computer keyboards). In addition to the typing keys, the keyboard includes a space bar, two shift keys, a shift lock key, a backspace key, and a tab key. There are two levers on the edges of the typing keys, one on the right and one on the left. The right lever controls the ribbon color: when the lever is positioned opposite the blue dot, typing occurs on the upper half of the ribbon; when it is positioned opposite the red dot, typing occurs on the lower half. To prepare matrices, the ribbon is disabled by positioning the lever opposite the white dot. The left lever allows you to set or delete tab stops. Under the removable cover that protects the ribbon spools and the character tray, on the left is the touch adjustment lever, which can be set to four levels, thus selecting the resistance the keys will apply while writing.
The typewriter keypad has one flaw: the 1 key, obtained by typing a lowercase l (l) or a capital I (i), is missing; similarly, the zero, obtained by typing a capital O (o), is missing. This feature was fairly common on all mechanical typewriters. Also missing are the keys for the uppercase accented vowels used in Italian; to type an accented capital letter, you had to type that letter followed by an apostrophe. Upon request, they could be ordered with the 1 key or other special characters, as well as keyboards for typing in other languages.


It will be carefully packaged and shipped via tracked shipping.

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