| Collection |
MHS (unaccessioned) General |
| Description |
Sun Standard typewriter number 2. Manufactured by Sun Typewriter Company, New York, U.S.A. between 1901 and 1907. Patented in foreign countries. Patents on the back have no dates, merely numbers: No.634,285; No.664,347; No.662,393; No.667,929; No.697,605.
Believed to have been used by personnel in The Marlborough Express office and donated by that company. Found in the Marlborough Express Office in Beavertown in 2012.
Kevin Andrews, when asked on 17 December 2012 could only remember that one Marlborough Express typewriter had a non-QUERTY keyboard. Of the others he couldn't remember how many or what they were, but he thought they were the ones on display in the cabinets, as this one was.
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Sun 2 Standard
First year of production:
1901
Company:
Sun Typewriter Company , New York , USA
The most remarkable feature of the Sun 2 Standard typewriter is its odd inking mechanism. Any type bar that went on its way to the platen, would first hit a small ink roller, before hitting the paper. The roller in turn would be thrown to the side where it would bounce back from an ink reservoir, picking up fresh ink in the process.
The Sun Standard 2 appeared in 1901 (there was no number 1), 15 years after the Sun company had introduced a number of linear index typewriters, very similar to the Odell.
Not only the inking mechanism on the Sun 2 was special. So was the escapement. The escapement was operated by a handle that was struck by the type bar just before it hit the platen.
The Sun Standard stayed on the market until 1907. It appeared in different countries with different names, such as Nova and Star. The machine, including some of the export models, also appeared in green.
Courtesy of: Robert collection [source: www.typewritermuseum.org].
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| Year Range from |
1901 |
| Year range to |
1907 |
| Object ID |
0000.800.1513 |
| Object Name |
Typewriter |
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