1920 Remington 11 #RL05717
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Robert Walker (walker923)
Created: 06-28-2022 at 02:51PM
Last Edit: 08-20-2022 at 08:08AM
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Description:
This was an estate sale find, and the purchase included a 1942 textbook for a one-year typing course. This is by far the heaviest typewriter in my collection, weighing in at over 44 pounds, and its extra-long carriage also makes it the largest. The manufacture date is not absolutely certain. The "R" and numerical part of the serial number point to a manufacture date of 1920, but it's uncertain what the "L" might mean. Perhaps it is a code for the wide (long) carriage. Please leave a comment if you have insights/knowledge about this.
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Hunter: Robert Walker (walker923)
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I bought my first typewriter in 1974 (a used 1940s Royal) as a college freshman English major, and my first new typewriter a couple of years later (a 197X Smith-Corona 2200) as my career goal settled into journalism. We used typewriters in newspaper work until the early 1980s, when computers took over the world of journalism. My typewriters went away, and my career evolved into public relations and marketing communications. As I grew older, I developed a nostalgic longing for a typewriter to reconnect with my early years. It got partially quenched a few years ago when my older sister gave me custody of her 1967 Olympia SM-9, which she received as a high school graduation present from our parents in 1969. But eventually I wanted something to reflect my personal typewriter past, so I obtained a 1946 Royal Quiet DeLuxe and a Smith-Corona 2200. That start in collecting led me into many estate sales and the mysteries of eBay/ Facebook Marketplace, where other treasures awaited discovery.
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