193X Macys (Barr) Portable 1 #38334
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 11-17-2017 at 03:32PM
Last Edit: 11-20-2017 at 07:23AM
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Description:
Like all Barrs, this machine is lovable and idiosyncratic, but not a delight to use, in my experience. (See the complaints from Consumer Reports, 1937, in the gallery.)
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Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
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Obsessive typewriterist, creator of The Classic Typewriter Page in 1995, editor of ETCetera 2006-2012 & 2015-2019, blogger, author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century (2015). E-mail: polt@xavier.edu
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