1921 Remington Portable #NA14825

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 05-03-2026 at 06:23PM
Last Edit: 05-03-2026 at 07:52PM

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Description:

2026-MAY-03 Gallery Creation. Another sighting from my May 3, 2026 search on about 1100 listings resulting from my eBay search on "Remington portable typewriter". This one is from December 1921, and so it still has no right-hand shift lever. Listings that provided the serial number of the typewriter were few and far between, but I found about 14 such listings. I did a sample count on the first page of 240 listings to estimate the proportion of listings that were for 1st generation Remington portables (not Remington Portable 2 or later), and I found 23 such listings, or about 9.6%. Three of these were for German-market machines that seem to have the 1st generation configuration, but were claimed to be of later dates. Roughly speaking, if 10% of the listings are for 1st generation Remington portables, then there were 110 such listings, with 14, about 13%, of those providing the serial number. Below is a full listing of the serial numbers I found. It will be too much work for me to create a gallery for each of these from snips of the eBay listings.
1. NX12159 (May 1921)
2. NX13158 (May 1921, same seller as my #NX13194 just purchased by me today, 5/3/26; apparently, he had another early specimen, only 36 units from the one I purchased, and he listed it this evening, 5/3/26, after I had purchased #NX13194).
3. NA14825 (December 1921, this gallery).
4. NK23316 (April 1922)
5. NC21645 (October 1922)
6. NA25891 (December 1922)
7. NA28946 (December 1922)
8. ND32258 (September 1923)
9. NZ32560 (November 1923)
10. NA33255 (December 1923)
11. NL45588 (March 1924)
12. NV42183 (July 1924)
13. NC45696 (October 1924)
14. NZ43930 (November 1924)

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Photos:

Main listing, full view.

Top-down view.

Right, with extended paper rests.

Serial number.

Rear view.

Left, with extended typebars.

Left, with retracted typebars.

Front, low-angle viewpoint.

Underside.

Case.

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.