Bremerton Typewriter Company

1930 Underwood Standard 5 Typewriter – For Sale $325

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Every once in a while, in our copious pile of Underwood 5 typewriters, we come across a gem. Our apprentice took on cleaning this up and did a wonderful job. This 1930 Underwood Standard 5 Typewriter is for sale. Types decent and comes with a new rubber platen and feet. 372917-5 For Sale $325 Local pick up only. ES … [Read more...]

1930’s Torpedo Standard with REALLY Tiny Type Face – For Sale $985

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This very coooool 1930's Torpedo Standard with REALLY Tiny Type Face is for sale. Serviced by Amsterdam Typewriter and with new rubber feet, the typewriter types nice. Such tiny type! Looks like 18 cpi. Just think of the post cards you could fill with that type. An entire novel on one card. The carriage is easily removed for those that love to gander at innards. No carrying case you crazy person. Look at the service … [Read more...]

1958 Tuxedo Olympia SM3 Typewriter – For Sale $785

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This very pretty 1958 Tuxedo Olympia SM3 Typewriter is for sale. Recently serviced, the typewriter features Pica type face, 10 cpi. This is one of the easy ones. Easy on the eyes and easy on the key board. Just types nice. Comes with a carrying case. 1125987 For Sale $785 Consign GC … [Read more...]

Green Smith-Corona Portable MusicWriter Typewriter – For Sale $985

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This Smith-Corona Music Writer Typewriter is for sale. Beautiful cosmetic condition and recently serviced. You often see full sized standards that are Music Writer machines for sale. Usually R.C. Allen and Olympia. Heck we have a beast of an Olympia Music Writer here in the shop. You will think Narwhal teeth when you gander a look at the Smith-Corona version. This Music Writer comes with the original papers and  a … [Read more...]

Remington Monarch No. 3 In for Service

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Well. We do not see many Monarch typewriters here at the shop. Mostly decorations on the shelf. This one arrived and the customer wanted it working. According to the typewriter database, this machine is from approximately 1912-1913. Dismantling the typewriter to clean it, I recognized influences from L.C. Smith in the carriage bearing assembly and Remington in the type bars. This old typewriter … [Read more...]

Across the USA and on to HOME – 1946

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This article is Mr. Montgomery’s continued musings from his return home from WWII; return-home-from-the-war-in-europe-1946. Occasionally, I publish some of Mr. Montgomery’s musings edited only for grammatical errors. Here is another of his reflection of earlier times. We have finally arrived in the US, and moved to a camp in New Jersey.  I recall that it is known as Camp Kilmer (I hope I remembered the name correctly).  We get reshuffled into … [Read more...]

1913 Royal Model 5 in for Service

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This fine example of a Royal Model 5 typewriter is a customers in for service. Most of the Royal 5 typewriters we get in the shop are totally beat up and are wrecks. This one is n i i i c e. Really, the machine has decent feet, all its parts and the type face is DOUBLE GOTHIC! All the typewriter needed was a decent cleaning and the margin release adjusted. Oh, and it needed some metal spools. Not plastic ribbon spools for … [Read more...]

1920 Underwood 5 Standard in for service

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This 1920 Underwood 5 Standard is in for service for a customer. Someone already replaced the key top legends. So sparkly. Pretty much each older Underwood 5 needs to be stripped down to what you see in the photos. They are almost always so dirty and with decades of accumulated oils. The only way to get to the gunk is to remove stuff. In the case of this machine that stuff is the lower type bar pivots, segment, type bars, ribbon … [Read more...]