1908 Underwood 5 #199902
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mac Derscheid (mderscheid)
Created: 01-13-2025 at 02:07PM
Last Edit: 01-13-2025 at 02:09PM
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Description:
A very nice old machine. Works very well, though the platen needs refinishing. Much of the pinstriping and some of the decals are quite worn.
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Hunter: Mac Derscheid (mderscheid)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 745
My first experience with a typewriter came when I was around 6 years old, every time I visited my grandmother I would go type on her Smith Corona electronic typewriter. Back in early 2012, my mother stumbled across the USBTypewriter project, and I was hooked instantly. I quickly bought a kit, and in June 2012 I purchased the machine to be used with it: my beautiful late model Royal 10. Later that year I stopped at an antique store, and found another machine: this time a Remington Rand Model 7. I thought I would buy just one more. Then later, one more. And then one more. Pretty soon I amassed around 30 machines, and that number is still growing today! I hope to get them all uploaded here soon so that I actually have a count on my typewriters, because I lost count long ago.
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