Prized Find
Here's yesterday's prized find in the thrift shops, an Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter at the Habitat for Humanity store in Elkin. (Note to CFO: $20)
This machine, manufactured between 1919 and 1929, is an open-frame (you can see the guts), three-row portable with 28 keys. A double shifter enables the three-character hammers of this compact typewriter to produce 84 characters. Still completely functional, it needs a good cleaning and will become a conversation piece in the Reader's Corner of the coffee shop.
I had hoped that Hemingway had used an Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter to pound out his 300 words a day but, alas, he used an Underwood Noiseless Portable (among others). Faulkner used an Underwood Standard Portable but I don't know if it was a three-row or a later four-row. Others who used Underwood Portables include Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Kerouac and E.B. White.
This machine, manufactured between 1919 and 1929, is an open-frame (you can see the guts), three-row portable with 28 keys. A double shifter enables the three-character hammers of this compact typewriter to produce 84 characters. Still completely functional, it needs a good cleaning and will become a conversation piece in the Reader's Corner of the coffee shop.
I had hoped that Hemingway had used an Underwood Standard Portable Typewriter to pound out his 300 words a day but, alas, he used an Underwood Noiseless Portable (among others). Faulkner used an Underwood Standard Portable but I don't know if it was a three-row or a later four-row. Others who used Underwood Portables include Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Kerouac and E.B. White.
You know you have some old cameras you can place around the shop.
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