Underwood or Remington Noiseless Model 7 Portable typewriter: Working with Case and Guarantee

Underwood or Remington Noiseless Model 7 Portable typewriter: Working with Case and Guarantee

from $997.00

Order your typewriter today, and I will send you a beautiful specimen of this model in about 2 weeks.

It won’t be the exact machines pictured, but it will be a working typewriter in comparable condition.

This is of one of history's quintessential writing machines. Noiseless typewriter started to take shape in 1905 when William Parker Kidder in Boston and Charles William Sponsel in Hartford, Connecticut, began a two-year, eight-patent collaboration to produce a “silent typewriter” – one which would operate “substantially without noise”. In the twenties, the mechanism was adopted by Remington and Underwood to produce a series of typewriters that were arguably one of the more successful in history.

Here we sell the Noiseless Portable, The Noiseless Model 1, The Noiseless Deluxe, and the Noiseless Model 7, which you are looking at.

We restore and replace the rubber on these, including front and rear rollers, platen, feet, and often the upper and lower key stops, depending on condition and availability. This makes for a pretty quiet writing machine, which does vary by specimen.

A new black and red ribbon is installed, usually on original inner spools.

This one comes in the sought-after black lacquer, with paper support and gold decals.

The Noiseless has a unique mechanism, which catches the type bar before it smacks the platen. This, coupled with rubber bumpers at the top and bottom of the stroke, and insulation, reduce the sound. A typewriter pad can further reduce the sound, removing the echo of the writing surface.

The gloss black lacquer shines. There may be very minor blemishes, depending on condition chosen at checkout. These will be VERY minor.

This model hails from around 1936, a perfect year. Before that, they had a smaller carriage return lever, and after that, the quality of some components declined gradually into the 40's.

The carriage knobs and hardware are in excellent condition. There is no rust visible anywhere. The chrome gleams!

This machine has been lovingly restored for your writing pleasure!

The cases are generally above average to nearly perfect. We sometimes have to re-wrap the handle, the old leather of which falls off.

The print is clear and crisp: 12 character per inch. Sometimes 10 character per inch.

Sometimes these machines print a little faintly, due to the Noiseless mechanism. The trick is to use 2 sheets of paper, or thicker paper, or a cotton ribbon.

All-metal construction with glossy black lacquer finish
Rounded panel above the keyboard, reflecting Art Deco styling
Weighs less than 16 pounds, making it a true portable for its era
Full-size paper table and long horizontal carriage return lever (Model 7)

The 1936 Remington Noiseless Model 7 typewriter, when in its original carrying case, weighs approximately 19 pounds, 3 ounces. The typical case dimensions are about 14 inches long, 13 inches wide, and 7 inches high (approximately 30 cm x 33 cm x 18 cm). This size and weight made it a substantial but still portable machine for its era. (Case height varies depending on year and specific model).

All of the features work as designed, including:

Tabulator (with a few key tabs included... these are often lost).