1932 Underwood Portable 4 Bank #626790
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
Created: 10-04-2018 at 07:38PM
Last Edit: 10-05-2018 at 06:29AM
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Description:
Fully functional Underwood 4 bank portable (Model F). This machine was generously given to me by Courtenay and Dave Smith, and Mellicent Wishau. This machine originally belonged to their grandmother Estelle Jett who lived in Georgia in 1932. Appears to have made its way to South Carolina (or at least was serviced and/or reconditioned out of South Carolina) based on the typewriter repair shop logo affixed to the paper support.
Have just started the initial clean up but wanted to get this into the database. I will upload other photos of the carrying case once all is complete
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Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
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Retired in June of 2015 and relocated from IL to NC (no more snow and cold but unfortunately, no more Portillo's Chicago dogs either). Missed my old manual typewriter and went on the hunt for a replacement. My first find was a 1920 Royal Model 10 (second design with the dual side glass) . Have always been very fond of typewriters, from the old portable that my mother used, to my first typing class in 1967, then on into the Navy where, as a Communications Yeoman, I worked on the AN/UGC-6 with the 28 ASR (automatic send receive) teletype machine as well as the IBM card punch machines in use at the time. I guess you can say that from 1967 onward, I have been typing on one machine or another, and now have started collecting as my little part in the preservation of the great machines of he past.
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