1927 Underwood 5 #2275412-10
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Dmitrijs Fedosovs (Riga2011)
Created: 03-07-2019 at 02:01PM
Last Edit: 03-21-2019 at 09:12AM
Description:
Typewriter Underwood Nr. 5 with a standard 10 inch cartridge. It was sold in the USSR in the 30s, through a Soviet-American enterprise " AMTORG". During the occupation of the Baltic USSR, the II world war, was converted to German tastatur. On figure 3, symbols RM -Reichs mark.
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Hunter: Dmitrijs Fedosovs (Riga2011)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 401
My name is Dmitrij, collector from Latvia. The collection of typewriters, old office supplies, calculators. I do the repairs and restoration machines. Mainly, my collection machines on three languages: Latvian, Russian, German. These languages are historical for Latvia. Most of the collection of typewriters was in Latvia in different eras. I study the history and technical aspect of typewriter.
www.typewriter-museum.lv
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