April 24, 2024
1920s REMINGTON PORTABLE TYPEWRITER
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Remington Portable type # 1 (Oct 1920 – Jan 1925) ( Taken from /polt/typewriters/rem-portables.htm#1 ) These little machines were marketed aggressively and were a great success. They were the first truly portable typewriters with four-bank keyboards, and in this category they had no competition until Royal and Underwood introduced four-bank portables in 1926. The "folding-typebar" mechanism raises the typebars to a 45-degree angle, the printing position, by means of a lever on the right side of the typewriter. The typebars must be lowered again when the typewriter is returned to its case. The carrying case is sometimes wood or metal covered in leather or imitation leather; usually (as on all subsequent Remington portables), it is wood covered in black cloth. In 1924 the price of the Remington Portable was $60 (equivalent to $780 today!). It was sold in France as the "Smith Premier Portative." The type writer works and all keys produce type. It is numbered NV636744 and would suggest it was built around 1923.
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