1976 Kovac (Nakajima) M-102 #60611583
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Liz Glenn (Jasanna)
Created: 11-26-2024 at 06:23PM
Last Edit: 11-26-2024 at 10:23PM
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Description:
The Kovac M-102 is an off-brand of the Sears Manual 1, which I previously thought to be made for only one year, 1974. Sears has an ad showing "Sears Manual 1" in its Fall 1974 catalog. That is not the case since Kovac M-102's serial number starts with a 6 which would indicate it being manufactured sometime in 1976 according to TWDB's Nakajima date code system. I'm going to take a wild guess that the Kovac branded typewriters are the over-stock machines(?) from Nakajima since Sears quickly moved the "Manual 1" name to a segment/basket-shifted Brother JP-5 from the Nakajima carriage-shifted ones in 1975/1976. The Sears Manual 1 branded Brother JP-5's are Brother Deluxe 1613 typewriters.
Kovac Corporation (Osaka, Japan) made, or had branded, a lot of calculators in the 1970s. The Kovac brand is on a lot of Nakajima made typewriters.
The Sears Manual 1 (Nakajima) are also branded as Neckermann Brillant Supermatic typewriters.
Pictures are from random internet sources.
Typeface Specimen:
Links:
- 1974 Sears Manual 1
- 197X Neckermann Brillant Supermatic
- Sears 'Throwback' Portable Typewriter
- Typewriter Review: 1974 Sears Manual 1 (Nakajima)
- Kovac M-102 (Wallapop ~ Spain)
- Kovac M-102 (San Diogenes - Chile)
Photos:
Hunter: Liz Glenn (Jasanna)
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