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The first Remington 2 was produced in 1885, the machine pictured here dates from between 1893 and 1894.

This is an understrike, or blind, typewriter. To see what you have typed, one lifts up the hinged carriage and looks at the underside of the platen.

The Remington typewriter along with other understrike machines, such as the Densmore, Caligraph and Smith Premier typewriters were among the most successful typing machines of their age.  It was only with the emergence of front-strike visible typewriters, such as the Pittsburg and Underwood, around the 1900s, that the understrike machines finally lost their market command and would completely disappear from the market by the advent of the First World War.

© , Martin Howard