1934 Underwood Noiseless 77 #655486
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
Created: 08-08-2019 at 07:20AM
Last Edit: 08-09-2019 at 05:06AM
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Very clean 1934 Underwood Noiseless 77. Originally built for and used in the Canadian market, I was able to purchase this from Claudia Condiff in Union Hall, VA. The machine originally was owned by a Miss Mabel I. Pacey of Finch, Ontario as evidenced by an original letter dated November 11, 1936 from the Underwood Elliott Fisher company to her. She had been inquiring about having additional key characters added. This machine also came with the original operating instructions, case with key, and a number of self-teach typing booklets (as well as a pack of carbon paper). The Underwood Elliott Fisher store was located in the Trafalgar Building at 203 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario
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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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