Antique Smith Premier 10 Typewriter Remington newspaper

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Antique Smith Premier 10 Typewriter Remington used for printing newspaper LOOK! WELCOME! "Seek the Unique." Thanks for your bidding consideration on this item: - Antique Smith Premier 10 Typewriter Remington used for printing newspaper - This is an 1890s Smith Premier typewriter - I believe it is the Smith Premier 10. I don't know anything about these things, so I borrowed some info from another listing: "The Smith Premier full-keyboard upstrike typewriter is one of the giants of typewriter history. The machine was the first typewriter built by the L.C. Smith & Brothers gun factory in Syracuse, N.Y. The inventor was an engineer by the name of Alexander Brown, who was employed by Smith. Legend has it that Brown saw the Sholes & Glidden typewriter at an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and vowed to build a better machine. His boss gave him the room he needed and Brown began his series of improvements on the S&G. The Smith Premier Typewriter was introduced in 1889 and it was indeed a major improvement compared to the Sholes & Glidden and many contemporary machines. . The Smith Premier 1 was replaced with a second model in 1894, that was built without the ornately decorated sides. Starting with the SP3 in 1901, the machine had a total of 84 keys (the SP1 and 2 had 76) and was available in different carriage widths on the models 4, read more
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