1915 Fox 24 #75096
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brian Decker (bkdecker66)
Created: 11-30-2025 at 03:04PM
Last Edit: 11-30-2025 at 03:24PM
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This is my 1915 Fox Visible Model 24 typewriter, S/N 75096. I won this machine online in the early years of eBay, on 9 December 1998. My winning bid was $76.00, and I paid $23.07 shipping, for a total of $99.07. This machine has the apparently less common variation of nickeled key tops instead of celluloid. It also has the typewriter decal within a Maltese cross, and very plain body decorations, as opposed to the fox-head decal and more elaborate decorations on the sides. This machine looks like it's set up to do financial arithmetic, as it includes "+", "=", "3/8", "5/8", and "7/8" characters, in addition to "1/4", "1/2", and "3/4"; for some reason, they left off "1/8".
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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.
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