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1909 McCool No2 Serial # 2384 1909 McCool No2 typewriter, Serial # 2384 Ben Metzger's 1909 McCool No2 typewriter. 2025-11-24 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Ben Metzger: 1909 McCool No2 Serial # 2384 Hey, it's the first McCool on TWDB! Cool!

The McCool typewriter was produced in 1909 by the Acme-Keystone Manufacturing Co. of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and sold as the McCool No. 2—despite there never being a No. 1 as far as we know. Using a typewheel mechanism with a three-bank, double-shift keyboard that produced 84 characters, it offered a compact, 12-pound, $25 machine at a time when the Underwood-style design was already dominant. Built for less than a year before a neighboring factory fire ended production, the McCool survives today as a scarce and mechanically distinctive curiosity in early 20th-century typewriter history. Fewer than 20 are known.

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1909 McCool No2 #2384

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Hunter: Ben Metzger (benmetz)
Created: 11-24-2025 at 08:33PM
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Hey, it's the first McCool on TWDB! Cool!

The McCool typewriter was produced in 1909 by the Acme-Keystone Manufacturing Co. of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and sold as the McCool No. 2—despite there never being a No. 1 as far as we know. Using a typewheel mechanism with a three-bank, double-shift keyboard that produced 84 characters, it offered a compact, 12-pound, $25 machine at a time when the Underwood-style design was already dominant. Built for less than a year before a neighboring factory fire ended production, the McCool survives today as a scarce and mechanically distinctive curiosity in early 20th-century typewriter history. Fewer than 20 are known.

You can visit my typewriter site at benmetzger.com or contact me at ben.metzger@gmail.com.

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