1926 Remington 12 #LE60030

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 12-24-2025 at 01:09PM
Last Edit: 12-24-2025 at 01:24PM

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This Remington Model 12 typewriter was manufactured in Toronto, Canada, in August of 1926. It's my very first eBay acquisition of any kind. I won this at auction on August 24, 1998. The seller was none other than Chuck Dilts, who went on to become the Editor of the Early Typewriter Collectors newsletter in the early 2000's. My winning bid was $52.50, and with shipping costs coming to $17.59, my total cost was $70.09. This is my second typewriter acquisition that it still in my collection.

The escapement seems to be completely busted on this machine. Hitting the space bar, or any key, creates no carriage movement. I suspect that the pinion gear shaft may be warped, only because I have encountered this problem on another one of my machines with similar (non-) behavior, Monarch 3 #99868S. In order to create the attached typing sample, I had to painstakingly use the carriage release lever to advance the rack-and-pinion one space at a time. The work it produces is pretty good, however. The alignment is mostly pretty good, though the "a" key is noticeably higher than it should be. This machine is completely unrestored, except for a set of new-ish feet supplied by Bob Aubert, circa 2008.

Because it was produced for the Canadian market in the mid-1920s, a pound currency character had some utility, and it has one of those. One curiosity in the keyset is that the period key, which is frequently a lower / upper period / period (. / .), instead has an asterisk in the upper case (. / *), even though the key itself is labeled as a period / period (. / .). Maybe the keytop labels were replaced at some time, and they didn't have a pre-printed (. / *) label to use? As a final note, the panels may look a little funny. The gold coloration on the decals had faded, and I had read online that amber shellac could be used to restore it. I tried this on two machines: this one, and, coincidentally, my other typewriter with a 1926 manufacture date, my Corona 4 #2K13611. I don't think my skills were quite up to the job, and so these are the only two machines in my collection with which I tried that.

Typeface Specimen:

Photos:

Front with panels off and paper in.

Left quadrant with panels off and paper in.

Panels, top.

Panels, underside.

Front with ribbon doors open.

Detail of front with panel off.

Keyboard.

Paper table.

Right quadrant.

Right.

Right ribbon spool detail.

Back.

Back with panel off.

Left.

Left ribbon spool detail.

Left quadrant.

Serial number.

Typing sample.

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. I still have my collection of around 57 machines, and now I have a renewed interest in getting some of them in good working and cosmetic order.