1913 Monarch 3 #99868S

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 01-04-2026 at 11:28AM
Last Edit: 01-04-2026 at 12:27PM

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This is my 1/4/2026 update to this gallery. I am posting many new images. I replaced the bent/broken pinion & starwheel assembly with the one from my Monarch 3 parts machine #63294. I was able to get the carriage to advance with keystrokes and the spacebar, which wasn't happening before. I produced the typing samples shown in the updated gallery. Far from perfect, and there are still multiple issues with the machine, but it's gratifying finally to be able to type on it. I picked it up at a Hampton Falls, NH antique mall on May 5, 2002, so that's going on 24 years ago as of this writing. My guess is the last time anyone typed on this machine was many decades before even that time. I paid $90.50 if my records are correct (my 2001-2003 records are sketchy due to a crashed laptop hard drive, but I do have credit card records for two purchases in Hampton Falls, NH, on 5/5/02, and this machine was most certainly one of them). I was thrilled to find an old machine outside of the typical range of Remingtons, Royals, Smith-Coronas, and Underwoods that one usually encounters in the USA.

This wide-carriage Monarch 3 typewriter has the "Remington Typewriter Company" label below the "Monarch" decal on the paper table. The decal on the back indicates this typewriter was made at Ilion, NY. I thought the "S" in the serial number might stand for "Special" due to the wide carriage; but I see another Monarch 3 with "S" in the serial number in the TWDB, and it seems to have a standard carriage length. If the 1913 manufacture date is correct, it implies that Monarch Visible typewriters were being manufactured at Ilion NY before the original Monarch factory at Syracuse was closed in 1914-1915, per the Davis brothers' article from 9/26/2012 on their typewriter blogspot.

Typeface Specimen:

Links:

• Link to gallery for donor" Monarch 3 #63294

Photos:

Front view with paper inserted.

Front view with paper installed and front panel off.

Front view with front panel off.

Front view with carriage off.

Front view low-angle with carriage off.

Carriage removed from typewriter.

Keyboard and paper table installed on machine.

Detail of paper table decal.

Top of machine with carriage off.

Serial number.

Right quadrant.

Right.

Right rear quadrant.

Back.

Back with carriage off.

Bent pinion & starwheel assembly.

Good pinion & starwheel assembly from Monarch 3 #63294

Underside.

Left rear quadrant.

Left.

Left quadrant.

Typing sample.

Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)

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My interest in typewriters started in 1997, when I was in graduate school at the University of Georgia. I purchased and read Darryl Rehr's book, joined ETC, and started reaching out to known collectors. I had several email interchanges with Richard Polt dating from that period. I also bought some of my first machines from Bob Aubert, and visited him at his home twice. After marriage and relocation to New England, I continued visiting antique shops and eBay, until other priorities put my typewriter hobby on hiatus around 2008. I still have my collection of around 57 machines, and now I have a renewed interest in getting some of them in good working and cosmetic order.