A little bit of Breakfast at Tiffany's. A lot of mid-century American design.
Look at this thing.
Red-orange body. Cream keys. Chrome. Curves.
The Smith-Corona Galaxie arrived at the beginning of the 1960s as part of Smith-Corona's new 6-Series generation of portable typewriters. The Galaxie was designed by industrial designers David O. Chase and Philip H. Stevens, giving Smith-Corona a distinctly modern look for the new decade.
This particular Smith-Corona color has a starring role in one of the most iconic films of the 1960s. The typewriter used by Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's was a 1960 Smith-Corona Galaxie in the same Hunter Red!
This one has the happy scratch patina of many stories told well, yet still holds up as a beautiful and functional machine. Look at the writing sample - it types super well and smoothly.
Smith-Corona had been refining its portable typewriters for decades, and the Galaxie represented the company's move into a new generation of lighter, more colorful and distinctly modern machines.
The early Galaxies retained the solid mechanical character that made Smith-Corona portables so popular while introducing a fresh 1960s aesthetic. The result is a machine that feels surprisingly contemporary even more than sixty years later.
The Original 1960 user manual is included. So is the original hardshell case - but it needs a new latch.
This machine has been fully serviced, new ribbon installed, and tested - ready for use right out of the box.
