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1937 Remington Noiseless 7 Serial # H59158 1937 Remington Noiseless 7 typewriter, Serial # H59158 Christopher Bailey's 1937 Remington Noiseless 7 typewriter. 2023-04-07 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1937 Remington Noiseless 7 Serial # H59158 Cosmetically only fair. It types, with some quirks: the ribbon vibrator doesn’t always work quite right (note the black capitals in the red text), and the line-space adjustment is loose, so that it always wants to advance three lines on any setting. A slightly skewed body makes me suspect it was dropped at some point in the distant past.

I did figure out how to adjust the motion so that the capitals and lower-case letters line up with each other. It’s a big screw on the bottom, right in the center, and it had come completely loose. Figuring that out taxed the limits of my mechanical ability.

I have two of these Noiseless machines, both from 1937. I don’t remember how I ended up with two. This one has no case.

1937 Remington Noiseless 7 #H59158

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 04-07-2023 at 07:03PM
Last Edit: 04-07-2023 at 07:09PM

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Cosmetically only fair. It types, with some quirks: the ribbon vibrator doesn’t always work quite right (note the black capitals in the red text), and the line-space adjustment is loose, so that it always wants to advance three lines on any setting. A slightly skewed body makes me suspect it was dropped at some point in the distant past.

I did figure out how to adjust the motion so that the capitals and lower-case letters line up with each other. It’s a big screw on the bottom, right in the center, and it had come completely loose. Figuring that out taxed the limits of my mechanical ability.

I have two of these Noiseless machines, both from 1937. I don’t remember how I ended up with two. This one has no case.

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The keyboard has a caret instead of a ¢ sign. It’s a useful character for imperfect typists, and I’m surprised not to find it on more typewriters.
The keyboard has a caret instead of a ¢ sign. It’s a useful character for imperfect typists, and I’m surprised not to find it on more typewriters.


The rear label.
The rear label.

A previous owner’s name is scratched into the back.
A previous owner’s name is scratched into the back.

Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration was always the universal typefounder’s sample text.
Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration was always the universal typefounder’s sample text.


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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