Tower President: Plastic Mainspring housing
Tower President: Knotted Drawband
Tower President: Margin Bell mounting
Late 60's Galaxy-Style Sterling: Plastic Mainspring Housing
Late 60's Galaxy-Style Sterling: Knotted Drawband
Late 60's Galaxy-Style Sterling: Margin Bell mounting
1956 Smith-Corona Silent: Metal Mainspring housing
1956 Smith-Corona Silent: Metal Hook Drawband
1956 Smith-Corona Silent: Margin Bell mounting
Great work.
I too would like to get accurate Smith-Corona serial number data. I have Classic-12s that no one one any of the groups can even date. Then I confuse myself with the TW-DB as do the numbers with the date start or end on the date listed?
I refer to your NOMDA book posts quite often. Thank you for those posts.
Aha, good research!
Typewriter taxonomy! The Corona Genome Project?
Another possibility that strikes me is that maybe SCM built Sears-branded machines with cheaper parts and methods in the ’50s, and then released the 60’s Super-5 Sterlings built using the Sears parts, but that hardly seems likely. They had to have made hundreds of thousands of those Sterlings, and that’s not consistent with a “hey, we gotta unload these old warehoused parts” kind of thing.
I need to find some old Sears catalogs and dig up some ads showing which body styles were being sold during certain years…
Where can I find the serial number on my 1957 tower president with case? I only see model number 871800.
that’s the Sears catalog number. Open up the ribbon cover and look along the edges of the frame. (: