1921 Remington Portable #NX13194
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 05-03-2026 at 02:31PM
Last Edit: 05-23-2026 at 08:30PM
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Description:
2026-MAY-23 Update. Added a few images that I made today, for comparison with my December 20 example, #NA00317 (see linked gallery).
2026-MAY-17 Update. I finally got around to taking my own images of this typewriter, so I can add those to the eBay listing images I posted when I created this gallery. I also created a minimal typing sample. This is the first time ever that I have typed on an early Remington Portable (pre-July 1921) with all of the earliest features. This one has a snapped carriage drawband, which must have been frayed already; it snapped soon after I started playing with the machine.
2026-MAY-03, Original Gallery Creation. This early Remington Portable (May 1921) appeared on eBay just today, 5/3/26, as a "Newly Listed" item. The "Buy It Now" price was only $38.00, and the shipping charge was only $12.71, for a total of $50.71. So I sprang on it. It's missing the ribbon spools, but everything else looks pretty good. We'll see when it arrives. I have already sent out a notice to the seller about please packaging it carefully. From the nicely detailed image of the type slugs from the eBay listing, it appears to be a pica typeface. I wonder when they started offering Remington portables in faces other than pica? I have a 1924 in elite, but they offered other typefaces definitely later in 1921, from comments on Richard Polt's Remington portables page.
I still have not dug out the other five early Remington Portable machines that I accumulated from obsessive eBay watching in 2001-2002, so that I can create galleries for them on TWDB. For now, I can list their serial numbers here:
1. NM10222 (Feb 1921)
2. NM11340 (Feb 1921)
3. NL11694 (Mar 1921)
4. NX12691 (May 1921)
5. NS11810 (Jun 1921) - this was a transitional month, but #NS11810 has all the early features, including case with rim & cotter pins.
Typeface Specimen:
Links:
- 1920 Remington Portable #NA00317, also purchased from fairfaxoldstuff on eBay
- Remington Porto-Rite #SR5062, also bought from fairfaxoldstuff on eBay
Photos:
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
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My interest in typewriters started in 1997, when I was in graduate school at the University of Georgia. I purchased and read Darryl Rehr's book, joined ETC, and started reaching out to known collectors. I had several email interchanges with Richard Polt dating from that period. I also bought some of my first machines from Bob Aubert, and visited him at his home twice. After marriage and relocation to New England, I continued visiting antique shops and eBay, until other priorities put my typewriter hobby on hiatus around 2008.
In late 2024, I started up again, working on my machines and having some of them serviced professionally by New England Typewriter (NET) LLC (Merrimack, NH), until they closed their doors in December of 2025. Since mid-2025, I have been adding to my collection again, first with a Hermes 3000 purchase from NET, then with various auctions and purchases on eBay, when I find something that catches my eye.
RESEARCH NOTE: When researching the Remington Portable on a computer with lots of screen real estate, you may find that launching the Remington Serial Number page and the Remington Portable By Model/Year/Serial page in new browser windows can give you interesting perspectives on changes throughout the model series.
