1909 Columbia-Bar-Lock 14 #163655
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 08-30-2026 at 11:51AM
Last Edit: 08-30-2026 at 11:51AM
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Description:
This typewriter was formerly in the IBM collection. I sold it in 2026. Date of manufacture may be later than 1909; that's when the model started, but I doubt that all no. 14's were made in that year.
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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) and Evertype: A Novel (2025). E-mail: polt@xavier.edu
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