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1926 Underwood Portable 3 Bank Serial # 158135 1926 Underwood Portable 3 Bank typewriter, Serial # 158135 Christopher Bailey's 1926 Underwood Portable 3 Bank typewriter. 2023-04-19 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1926 Underwood Portable 3 Bank Serial # 158135 Very worn finish, especially where a previous owner’s hand rested on the left front corner. Mechanically in fairly good shape. All keys move smoothly. It needed to have both shift stops adjusted; platen is smooth but after sandpapering it grips the paper well enough to feed it through; the ribbon vibrator doesn’t work quite reliably, leading to partial letters when set on black (the workaround is a solid-color ribbon and leaving the ribbon selector on red).

1926 Underwood Portable 3 Bank #158135

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 04-19-2023 at 05:50PM
Last Edit: 04-19-2023 at 05:54PM

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Very worn finish, especially where a previous owner’s hand rested on the left front corner. Mechanically in fairly good shape. All keys move smoothly. It needed to have both shift stops adjusted; platen is smooth but after sandpapering it grips the paper well enough to feed it through; the ribbon vibrator doesn’t work quite reliably, leading to partial letters when set on black (the workaround is a solid-color ribbon and leaving the ribbon selector on red).

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From typing position.
From typing position.

The keyboard.
The keyboard.


Three characters on each type.
Three characters on each type.


The case is in better cosmetic condition than the typewriter inside.
The case is in better cosmetic condition than the typewriter inside.

Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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I’m a writer who often writes with a typewriter to get away from the computer for a while. I think I became a typewriter collector when I bought my typewriters some industrial-grade wheeled steel shelving from a restaurant supply house. Before that I was just an accumulator, but now I’ve spent more on shelves than on all the typewriters put together. (They were all cheap.)

I have steel pens, too, which I also write with regularly. Both collections started at the same moment in 1990, at the liquidation of the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain, where I bought a Woodstock typewriter, two gross of Esterbrook Jackson Stub pens, and three bottles of Carter’s green ink.


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