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The Underwood family, a successful manufacturer of ribbons and carbon paper, started out originally supplying ribbons to Remington Typewriter. When Remington decided to produce its own ribbons, Underwood bought the creation of Franz Wagner, a…

The De-Luxe Dial typewriter, made by Marx Toys in the 1950s, is a tin toy that actually works. It was fabricated using then sheets of steel plated with a thin coat of tin. Chromolithography, a precursor to offset printing, was used to create the…

This model was Ernest Hemingway’s typewriter of choice. It was marketed from 1932 to 1940; this model is from the late ‘30s.

Introduced in 1947, the Underwood Model 1 electric typewriter was the first of many electric typewriters introduced shortly after the Second World War. Underwood typewriter production had largely paused for the period of US entry in the Second World…

This late 1920s machine was used in Czechoslovakia although it is of German origin.

The Remington Pioneer was made amidst the Great Depression, between October 1937 and January 1938. Only roughly 17,500 of this model were made.

The Pioneer name was apparently reserved for a very basic typewriter. It has a sheet-metal body…

The Mignon is a German typewriter dating from 1904. It is an “indicator type” machine, with the stylus on the left being manipulated over the desired letter; pressing one of the small bars in front depresses the type cylinder to the paper. This…

The Mode B Imperial was introduced in 1915.It was one of the earliest English typewriters, manufactured in the city of Leicester. Oddly enough, in France it was sold under the name of “Typo!”

The American designers E.E. Barney and Frank Tanner patented their Ideal typewriter in 1897. Seidel & Naumann of Dresden, makers of bicycles and sewing machines, started to produce the Ideal typewriter in 1900.

Former Civil War newspaper correspondent James B. Hammond parlayed a $5,000 investment to over $1 million with his typewriter that used a type cylinder that revolved instead of keys. This model is the 1915 Hammond Multiplex.