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1950 Underwood Rhythm Touch Serial # 12-6742680 1950 Underwood Rhythm Touch typewriter, Serial # 12-6742680 Christopher Bailey's 1950 Underwood Rhythm Touch typewriter. 2023-04-03 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1950 Underwood Rhythm Touch Serial # 12-6742680 It looks like a wreck, but it can still produce some good-looking typing. The right margin is not completely reliable (and the right-margin pointer is broken off on the scale); the scales and Underwood logo on the front are nearly obliterated; the Q key is sometimes a bit sticky. Pica type.

1950 Underwood Rhythm Touch #12-6742680

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 04-03-2023 at 11:55AM
Last Edit: 04-03-2023 at 05:40PM

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It looks like a wreck, but it can still produce some good-looking typing. The right margin is not completely reliable (and the right-margin pointer is broken off on the scale); the scales and Underwood logo on the front are nearly obliterated; the Q key is sometimes a bit sticky. Pica type.

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This is what it looks like when it’s clean.
This is what it looks like when it’s clean.

The keyboard. Either the keys are discoloring at different rates or a few of them were replaced at some point.
The keyboard. Either the keys are discoloring at different rates or a few of them were replaced at some point.

The serial number is down under the right-hand ribbon spool.
The serial number is down under the right-hand ribbon spool.

The main scale and the centering scale are almost completely rubbed off, and the right-hand margin setting (which, since this is an Underwood, is on the left) is missing its pointer.
The main scale and the centering scale are almost completely rubbed off, and the right-hand margin setting (which, since this is an Underwood, is on the left) is missing its pointer.

The rear doesn’t look so bad. Only the typist has to face the full ugliness of this beat-up machine.
The rear doesn’t look so bad. Only the typist has to face the full ugliness of this beat-up machine.

The front panel has sound insulation inside. I don’t know how much it really does; even with the panel removed, this is a very quiet standard.
The front panel has sound insulation inside. I don’t know how much it really does; even with the panel removed, this is a very quiet standard.

With the front panel removed, the ancient Underwood design—more than half a century old when this unit was made—is very obvious.
With the front panel removed, the ancient Underwood design—more than half a century old when this unit was made—is very obvious.


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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