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This typewriter was almost certainly NOT manufactured by Remington. I have seen better photographs of this particular typewriter, which is at the Buffalo Museum, and have talked to them about its origins. This particular typewriter was one of the very few that were manufactured in Milwaukee by James Densmore and Mathias Schwalbach for the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer Co. It was designed by Christopher Latham Sholes, with assistance by others.

I believe it is likely that this is the machine that Densmore and George Washington Yost took to Ilion NY to show Remington, which resulted in a contract under which the Remington company agreed to manufacture 1,000 machines for the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer Company. It appears to have a wooden frame.

Two engineers from Remington (William Jenne and Jefferson Clough) further refined the machine. The first commercially successful production typewriter was the result of this effort.

I would assume that, given this background and the fact that only a few dozen (at most) of these machines were manufactured, this is a particularly valuable artifact.