1938 Underwood 6 #4806706-12
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
Created: 06-08-2023 at 05:55PM
Last Edit: 06-09-2023 at 04:54AM
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Found this Underwood No.6 Champion in Mocksville, NC. It was made available by Mike and Linda Keller and originally belonged to the North Carolina Agricultural Stabilization & Conservation Office in Davie County where Mikeās mother, Dorothy Keller worked. When the office was renovated or relocated, she took the typewriter with her. The right side close out panel still shows the remnants of the inventory control number that was assigned to it. This typewriter also came with two Stuart Typing books dated 1936 & 1939, as well as a new ribbon complete with tin.
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Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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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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