19XX Barr Universal #C2U658
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
Created: 01-01-2017 at 08:07PM
Last Edit: 01-01-2017 at 08:08PM
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Description:
Late '20s? Early '30s? I wish we had an explanation of these serial numbers. Maybe the company deliberately chose a mysterious system to keep its big competitors guessing.
Typeface Specimen:
Hunter: Richard Polt (richardpolt)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 4427
Obsessive typewriterist, creator of The Classic Typewriter Page in 1995, editor of ETCetera 2006-2012 & 2015-2019, blogger, author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century (2015). E-mail: polt@xavier.edu
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