1934 Remington Noiseless Portable #N51835
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
Created: 03-16-2022 at 09:45PM
Last Edit: 03-19-2022 at 11:40AM
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Purchased (in excellent condition) from the grandson of the original owner in March 2022. Reportedly, the original owner was Bert Schmitt, who in the 1920s and 1930s was an oil man, had a flying circus, and founded the first charter airline in Kansas, United States. Schmitt is said to have been good friends with aviators Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart, comedian Will Rodgers, the Phillips Oil brothers, and Wichita, Kansas airplane manufacturers Cessna, Stearman, and Beech. Has original case in good condition.
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Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
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I'm a semi-retired software/web developer with a now eight-year-old grandson, Jaxon, who is crazy about typewriters. In late 2021, at age six, Jaxon got a Montgomery Ward Escort 350 portable from Goodwill that absolutely fascinated him. He still takes it everywhere, and remains especially pleased that it has a key for the number one. He considers his Escort to be our best typer, but I think that honor goes to our second generation 1969 Hermes 3000. Jaxon's got me hooked, and now--between us--we have a growing collection of writing machines. Together, we've set up and equipped a small workshop area and, whenever we get the chance, we clean and perform minor repairs on our typewriters. Now that Jaxon's reading and writing skills are steadily improving, he rarely needs anyone to tell him how to spell the words he wants to type.
Newer to typewriter collecting than Jaxon, I am particularly interested in ultraportables and portables, and have developed a special fondness for Gossen, Hermes, and Rooy machines. I am also very interested in any brand/model with a HCESAR keyboard layout. A collector-at-heart--I have long collected West Indian fiction (40+ years) and Haitian art (30+ years)--I am old enough to have owned and regularly used typewriters back in the pre-PC days.
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