1963 Montgomery Ward Signature 100 #E3235910
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 09-16-2023 at 02:09PM
Last Edit: 09-16-2023 at 02:15PM
Description:
A cheap typewriter cheaply procured from the thrift store. The most interesting thing about it is the nonstandard pitch: 10½ characters per inch, a little smaller than Pica. All the other Signature 100 machines here in the database appear to have the same pitch, so 10½ c.p.i. seems to have been the standard for this model.
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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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