1956 Remington Quiet-Riter #QR 3116171
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Zigmund Hostutler (Qwerpty)
Created: 11-27-2025 at 10:04AM
Last Edit: 11-27-2025 at 10:18AM
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Description:
Pica; acquired winter 2017.
While not my first typewriter, this was the machine that gave me "the bug." A freebie estate sale find, this machine really introduced me to the world of typewriters. It gave me my first experience cleaning up a typewriter, as well as my first (unsuccessful) repair job.
This machine didn't stay very long in my possession; I had pretty quickly set my heart on getting another, older typewriter and had to make space for it. I gifted this to a relative in the summer of 2017. As I recall, it had a problem with intermittent skipping. I couldn't fix it at the time, but a few years later, I had it sorted out.
Photos and type sample are from 2017.
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Hunter: Zigmund Hostutler (Qwerpty)
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