1951 Remington Quiet-Riter #QT2255493
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 03-30-2023 at 12:51PM
Last Edit: 06-25-2023 at 08:25AM
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Description:
A gift from a friend who had it sitting in a garage for years or decades. It is not perfect, but it types well. A spring is missing, so the margin stops didn’t work; I made them work reliably with advanced wadded-paper technology, which I am thinking of patenting.
The Pica text this machine produces is extraordinarily neat. It could pass for the work of an electric.
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Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 867
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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