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1922 Remington Portable Serial # NA21841 1922 Remington Portable typewriter, Serial # NA21841 Brian Decker's 1922 Remington Portable typewriter. 2026-08-20 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Brian Decker: 1922 Remington Portable Serial # NA21841 2026-AUG-20, Gallery Creation. Another sighting of a Remington portable with serial number provided on eBay. This one, #NA21841, was manufactured in December of 1922. Seller is "outbidthis!" based in Silver Spring, MD, asking $100 OBO. The seller attempted to use AI via Google to date the machine. Unfortunately, they entered the serial number incorrectly (both in Google and on the listing page, with a different # each time!). Google AI gave a wrong answer, even for the input serial number, not surprisingly. This eBay listing is also unusual in that close-up images of all the type slugs are provided, showing definitively that this December 1922 machine is clean of any foundry marks on the slugs.

For this gallery, I only used the Snip tool for the image showing the eBay listing details. For the rest of the images, I saved the webp files that seem to be the format used by eBay these days (webp files were developed by Google, who released the first stable version in 2018. I am a little slow keeping up with new technology:). TWDB does not load webp files, so I convert them to jpegs before uploading.

1922 Remington Portable #NA21841

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 08-20-2026 at 08:29AM
Last Edit: 08-20-2026 at 08:43AM

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2026-AUG-20, Gallery Creation. Another sighting of a Remington portable with serial number provided on eBay. This one, #NA21841, was manufactured in December of 1922. Seller is "outbidthis!" based in Silver Spring, MD, asking $100 OBO. The seller attempted to use AI via Google to date the machine. Unfortunately, they entered the serial number incorrectly (both in Google and on the listing page, with a different # each time!). Google AI gave a wrong answer, even for the input serial number, not surprisingly. This eBay listing is also unusual in that close-up images of all the type slugs are provided, showing definitively that this December 1922 machine is clean of any foundry marks on the slugs.

For this gallery, I only used the Snip tool for the image showing the eBay listing details. For the rest of the images, I saved the webp files that seem to be the format used by eBay these days (webp files were developed by Google, who released the first stable version in 2018. I am a little slow keeping up with new technology:). TWDB does not load webp files, so I convert them to jpegs before uploading.

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Google AI query provided in the listing.
Google AI query provided in the listing.

eBay listing page. Note the serial number is given incorrectly, both in the Google AI search and in the listing title.
eBay listing page. Note the serial number is given incorrectly, both in the Google AI search and in the listing title.

Image of the actual serial number on the body of the machine as provided in the eBay listing.
Image of the actual serial number on the body of the machine as provided in the eBay listing.

Type slug detail at the left end - just the Q & A keys.
Type slug detail at the left end - just the Q & A keys.

Type slug detail, A through 3 keys.
Type slug detail, A through 3 keys.

Type slug detail, S through F keys.
Type slug detail, S through F keys.

Type slug detail, U through O keys.
Type slug detail, U through O keys.

Type slug detail, 5 through H keys.
Type slug detail, 5 through H keys.

Most of type basket.
Most of type basket.

Top down, slight right.
Top down, slight right.

Top down, slight left.
Top down, slight left.

Top down, type basket and carriage.
Top down, type basket and carriage.

Keyboard, left end.
Keyboard, left end.

Keyboard, middle.
Keyboard, middle.

Keyboard, right end.
Keyboard, right end.

Left broadside, with view of base underside.
Left broadside, with view of base underside.

Left rear quadrant view.
Left rear quadrant view.

Left rear quadrant close-up.
Left rear quadrant close-up.

Right rear close-up.
Right rear close-up.

Case underside.
Case underside.

Case latch detail.
Case latch detail.

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.


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