189X Hammond 1 #10892
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 04-19-2014 at 01:49AM
Last Edit: 03-12-2015 at 09:26AM
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Description:
Ideal-keyboard Hammond 1.
According to sales receipts collected by Peter Weil and Herman Price, Hammond #5621 was sold in May 1888 and #7563 was sold in May 1889. If production continued at the same rate, mine would have been built around late 1890 or early 1891.
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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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