1938 Barr Macy's Portable No 1 #39631
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
Created: 07-08-2025 at 02:31PM
Last Edit: 07-08-2025 at 02:41PM
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Description:
I have listed this "Weedsport" Bar as a Macy's Portable No.1 for lack of any other choices. When this little gem came to me it had a Remington decal on the paper support, which has since been removed. As Barr did not maintain any serial number production records that have survived, and from what I have read, I have guestimated the production year to be 1938.
Thanks to Sharon Faye Stout Henderson for making this available as she thinned out her collection.
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Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
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Retired in June of 2015 and relocated from IL to NC (no more snow and cold but unfortunately, no more Portillo's Chicago dogs either). Missed my old manual typewriter and went on the hunt for a replacement. My first find was a 1920 Royal Model 10 (second design with the dual side glass) . Have always been very fond of typewriters, from the old portable that my mother used, to my first typing class in 1967, then on into the Navy where, as a Communications Yeoman, I worked on the AN/UGC-6 with the 28 ASR (automatic send receive) teletype machine as well as the IBM card punch machines in use at the time. I guess you can say that from 1967 onward, I have been typing on one machine or another, and now have started collecting as my little part in the preservation of the great machines of he past.
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