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1938 Remington Junior Serial # S256258 1938 Remington Junior typewriter, Serial # S256258 Brian Decker's 1938 Remington Junior typewriter. 2026-10-10 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Brian Decker: 1938 Remington Junior Serial # S256258 2026-OCT-10, Gallery Creation.

This typewriter is from the Mike Meakin collection. Mike was the owner of Abacus Office Machines in Spokane, WA, which he started in 1961. Mike retired in 1992, leaving the operation of the business to his children. In addition to running a successful office machine business, Mike was an avid typewriter and adding machine collector, whose collection grew to over 450 machines over time. Mike passed away in 2025, and his children are now gradually selling off his collection. His daughter, Trudy, has graciously allowed me to create TWDB galleries for Mike's machines, to add to our knowledge base.

This is a Great Depression-era Remington Junior portable, whose serial number indicates a likely manufacture date of January, 1938. It is the 69th Meakin gallery that I have created so far on TWDB. It was listed on eBay today, 10-10-2026, and is still available as of this gallery creation. This machine has the more basic paper table, and smaller decal along the front contour, as compared to my example, #S261005 (Feb 1938; see linked gallery). The typing sample reveals that it also has the "^" insertion character, which seemed to be standard on the S- and SD- series Remington Junior portables of the 1930s.

1938 Remington Junior #S256258

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 10-10-2026 at 10:35AM
Last Edit: 10-10-2026 at 11:01AM

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2026-OCT-10, Gallery Creation.

This typewriter is from the Mike Meakin collection. Mike was the owner of Abacus Office Machines in Spokane, WA, which he started in 1961. Mike retired in 1992, leaving the operation of the business to his children. In addition to running a successful office machine business, Mike was an avid typewriter and adding machine collector, whose collection grew to over 450 machines over time. Mike passed away in 2025, and his children are now gradually selling off his collection. His daughter, Trudy, has graciously allowed me to create TWDB galleries for Mike's machines, to add to our knowledge base.

This is a Great Depression-era Remington Junior portable, whose serial number indicates a likely manufacture date of January, 1938. It is the 69th Meakin gallery that I have created so far on TWDB. It was listed on eBay today, 10-10-2026, and is still available as of this gallery creation. This machine has the more basic paper table, and smaller decal along the front contour, as compared to my example, #S261005 (Feb 1938; see linked gallery). The typing sample reveals that it also has the "^" insertion character, which seemed to be standard on the S- and SD- series Remington Junior portables of the 1930s.

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Front view, no paper inserted.
Front view, no paper inserted.

Close-up of front decal.
Close-up of front decal.

Front view with typing sample inserted.
Front view with typing sample inserted.

Serial number.
Serial number.

Typebars.
Typebars.

Top-down, angled view.
Top-down, angled view.

Right broadside.
Right broadside.

Aft view.
Aft view.

Left broadside.
Left broadside.

Underside.
Underside.

eBay main listing page.
eBay main listing page.

Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)

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My interest in typewriters started in 1997, when I was in graduate school at the University of Georgia. I purchased and read Darryl Rehr's book, joined ETC, and started reaching out to known collectors. I had several email interchanges with Richard Polt dating from that period. I also bought some of my first machines from Bob Aubert, and visited him at his home twice. After marriage and relocation to New England, I continued visiting antique shops and eBay, until other priorities put my typewriter hobby on hiatus around 2008.

In late 2024, I started up again, working on my machines and having some of them serviced professionally by New England Typewriter (NET) LLC (Merrimack, NH), until they closed their doors in December of 2025. Since mid-2025, I have been adding to my collection again, first with a Hermes 3000 purchase from NET, then with various auctions and purchases on eBay, when I find something that catches my eye.


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