1912 Fox 24 #54747

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)
Created: 09-13-2015 at 06:50PM
Last Edit: 08-23-2016 at 04:48PM

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Description:

Purchased online and damaged in shipment. Both shifting arms, the left rear frame corner and the front frame bar were fractured. I used J-B Weld KwikWeld epoxy adhesive for repair. The Fox types nimbly after minor repair and rust/corrosion abatement.

The keyboard includes right and left manicule, degree, pilcrow and section sign characters. See typeface sample and detail photos.

The typewriter has a staggered double row of typebars.

Easily removable carriage (4 screws) and easily removable platen (2 screws)

Basket shift, four bank.

My machine is missing tab stops, front tab key, front stencil key, ribbon oscillator knob, and an unidentified lever on the left front of the machine. The ampersand on the type slug is worn off.

UPDATE: passed along to another typospherian who has plans to completely overhaul the machine.

Typeface Specimen:

Links:

• My typewriter blog - Fox 24 entries
• Words Are Winged: Dismantling a Fox Typewriter
• Davis Brothers’ Fox Visible Typewriters - An Overview
• Oztypewriter’s Fox 24

Photos:

Words "Fox Typewriter Co. No. 24" located behind keyboard.

Double row of typebars

Fox 24 Typewriter serial number is located in right back, behind carriage

Right and left manicule, pilcrow, section sign and degree keys

Carriage removed with loosening of just four screws and securing the draw band.

Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)

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I'm a novice collector with a very small collection of mostly nonfunctional typewriters. I enjoy tinkering and repairs, so I am slowly but surely putting these typewriters back into service.