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1929 Underwood 46 T Serial # 2460939-10 46 T 1929 Underwood 46 T typewriter, Serial # 2460939-10 46 T Mark Schrad's 1929 Underwood 46 T typewriter. 2021-11-17 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Mark Schrad: 1929 Underwood 46 T Serial # 2460939-10 46 T Gustaw Gerlach was a Polish machinist and entrepreneur, who became the sole purveyor of precision machinery, equipment, high-end optics, and eventually typewriters to the Romanov court and the entire Russian Empire by the 1880s, with offices in Warsaw, Moscow, and literally a half-block from the Winter Palace on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. Obviously, that all came crashing down during World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, following which he fled the Bolsheviks and returned to (now) independent Poland. His sons took over the operation of his business--which I'm utterly fascinated with--and continued to sell typewriters as "General Agent for Poland and Russia."

That is the case with this Underwood 46T from 1929, branded and sold by Gerlach in Warsaw, with a Polish keyboard and special arithmetic keys (square, cube, square root, etc.), with hand-drawn legends. I received this machine from Poland in November, 2021, and have paired it with my other, pre-revolutionary Gerlach Underwood 5 from 1914; and my other Underwood 46, the "Semitic" Yiddish/Hebrew Underwood.

1929 Underwood 46 T #2460939-10 46 T

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mark Schrad (MLSchrad)
Created: 11-17-2021 at 01:24PM
Last Edit: 11-17-2021 at 01:25PM


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Gustaw Gerlach was a Polish machinist and entrepreneur, who became the sole purveyor of precision machinery, equipment, high-end optics, and eventually typewriters to the Romanov court and the entire Russian Empire by the 1880s, with offices in Warsaw, Moscow, and literally a half-block from the Winter Palace on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. Obviously, that all came crashing down during World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, following which he fled the Bolsheviks and returned to (now) independent Poland. His sons took over the operation of his business--which I'm utterly fascinated with--and continued to sell typewriters as "General Agent for Poland and Russia."

That is the case with this Underwood 46T from 1929, branded and sold by Gerlach in Warsaw, with a Polish keyboard and special arithmetic keys (square, cube, square root, etc.), with hand-drawn legends. I received this machine from Poland in November, 2021, and have paired it with my other, pre-revolutionary Gerlach Underwood 5 from 1914; and my other Underwood 46, the "Semitic" Yiddish/Hebrew Underwood.

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Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University. Writes about alcohol politics, Russia, and international law when not refurbishing old typewriters.



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