1915* Chicago Closed Frame Model #73715
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 02-13-2013 at 03:58AM
Last Edit: 07-17-2017 at 10:18AM
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Description:
This is a pretty Chicago from my collection. It works fine except that on a few characters, the type cylinder doesn't turn far enough and the characters are displaced from their proper position on the page.
I'm guessing a manufacture date near the end of production. The highest Chicago serial number in Herman Price's data is 89284. The latest reference to the Chicago that I can find in Typewriter Topics is 1916, and sources say that production ended in 1917.
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Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
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