08-22-2019, 01:08 PM
(08-06-2019, 04:36 AM)dargosmydaddy Wrote: As for the typewriter, it came from a great-aunt's attic and has been gracing my desk since last month... I have been planning a dolly photo shoot ever since! Googling around, I think it's a model from the 1920's... I wish it could talk (or produce it's own ghostly typed manuscript) and tell me it's history.
Based on a cursory glance through the Typewriter Database website (which I just discovered a few minutes ago), your typewriter looks as though it could be considerably older than your initial estimate; that is, pre-1910 rather than 1920s.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/Underwood.5.4.bmys
It is almost definitely an Underwood Model 5, which was the favorite typewriter of journalist and TV commentator Andy Rooney. If you can find the serial number you can narrow down the date on the website linked above, but at a glance it looks a lot like a 1907 model.
Very nice machine!
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