1945 Remington 17 #J695693
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Fumitaka Hayashi (fhayashi)
Created: 04-25-2026 at 02:11PM
Last Edit: 04-25-2026 at 02:12PM
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Description:
My second Remington Model Seventeen. This one was made in 1945. There are some small changes, other than the obvious changes to the labeling. There is now another setting on the ribbon color selct. My older 1940 model has blue (top), red (bottom) and white (middle). This 1945 model has an additional "-" setting between the white and red settings. Not sure what it does. I suspect it might be middle of the ribbon - I will find out when I get a new two-color ribbon. This one also seems to have two of the Remington-specific ribbon bobbins. My other one had only one.
Not sure why, but 2 out of 4 of the typewriters I have acquired so far has worked flawlessly without any sticky slugs - they have both been Remingtons.
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Hunter: Fumitaka Hayashi (fhayashi)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 56
Relatively new to collecting. Would like to document my collection.
Planning on sticking to full-sized American machines so I don't spend too much on fancy European portables.
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