Impressive Hammond Folding Typewriter. USA, 1920s

Spectacular antique typewriter made in the early 20th century, more exactly in the 1920s. This model is known as Hammond Folding and is actually the foldable version of the popular Hammond Multiplex typewriter. It is in excellent condition and comes in its original case, perfect to preserve and carry the machine. It also comes with an instruction booklet. This features turn the typewriter into a real collectors piece that has been fully fine-tuned in otder to provide a great working order: it can perfectly be used to type documents. Hammonds typewriters started being produced in 1884. The original model was developed by the American journalist James Barlett Hammond who conceived the idea for a printing machine after seeing his dispatches garbled by telegraph operators. During the 1870s and without any engineering training, he developed a typewriter that used a typewheel or shuttle instead of the classic set of type bars. The most popular model of the brand was the Hammond Multiplex; the portable version of this typewriter is the Hammond Folding Portable, the machine that we can see in these images. It was launched in 1923. This model has ywo buttons on either side of the keyboard that unlock this part and allow it to be turned up. In this typewriter we can see an inscription in silvery gothic lettering printed over the keyboard: Folding Model 26. Under these words we also find the models name, Multiplex Hammond, accompanied by a decal in golden, white a red colors. The keyboard is composed of circular pieces with white background and black symbols, all of them framed by the classic nickel-plated ring. All the typewriters component parts are original and so are the protecting case and the instruction booklet. This wonderful Hammond Folding typewriter is a real classic, perfect to decorate a study or a bookcase.