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1937 Remington Portable 5 Serial # V958115 1937 Remington Portable 5 typewriter, Serial # V958115 Mary Echevarria's 1937 Remington Portable 5 typewriter. 2017-04-21 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Mary Echevarria: 1937 Remington Portable 5 Serial # V958115 I cleaned this up for a friend of a friend and put in a new ribbon. It types very nicely.

Carriage shift.

Red "Self Starter" key is for indenting.

Pretty red accents: paper scale, back space key, self starter key and shift lock key.

Serial number is stamped on the front of the machine behind the back space key on the right

1937 Remington Portable 5 #V958115

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)
Created: 04-08-2016 at 09:11AM
Last Edit: 04-21-2017 at 11:38AM


Description:

I cleaned this up for a friend of a friend and put in a new ribbon. It types very nicely.

Carriage shift.

Red "Self Starter" key is for indenting.

Pretty red accents: paper scale, back space key, self starter key and shift lock key.

Serial number is stamped on the front of the machine behind the back space key on the right

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Self Starter key for indenting
Self Starter key for indenting

Red paper scale
Red paper scale






Serial number is stamped behind the back space key on the right
Serial number is stamped behind the back space key on the right

Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)

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I'm a novice collector with a very small collection of mostly nonfunctional typewriters. I enjoy tinkering and repairs, so I am slowly but surely putting these typewriters back into service.



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