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The Olivetti Valentine is a portable mechanical typewriter, designed by Ettore Sottsass and Perry A. King in 1968. The model went into production the following calendar year, in 1969.

In Italy the typewriter is known as the rossa portatile (portable red), but there were also white versions made for the Italian market, as well as blue and green versions made to be sold in France and Germany respectively, but today these are practically unobtainable due to their rarity.

The Valentine became one of the biggest icons of Industrial design, underlined by its presence from the beginning of the 1970s in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Valentine has been included in numerous exhibitions on both international and Italian design, as well as winning prizes for its innovative design.

Features
The principal characteristic of the Valentine, stressed clearly in its advertising campaigns, is its portability. Unlike other portable typewriters it does not have a suitcase style carrying case, but is instead carried in a protective outer shell made of ABS, fastening to the typewriter itself with rubber straps. The body of the typewriter itself forms a part of the carrying case, with the back panel of the typewriter forming the closure of the case, complete with an attached handle.

The body of the typewriter itself is red, also in ABS, with the black keys entirely separate from the body. There are two orange knobs for turning the ribbon spools and the carriage and mechanisms are similar to those in the iconic Lettera 22.