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[Jack London]. 1902 Bar-Lock #10 (Serial Number 90808)....
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"No one would have the patience to read more than a page of my longhand!" -- Jack London
[Jack London]. 1902 Bar-Lock #10 (Serial Number 90808). 15"
(L) x 14 1/2" (W) x 8 3/4" (H); on wooden base 15" x 15 1/4" x
3/4". Black ribbon. Normal wear from use.Jack London's 1902 Bar-Lock #10, made by the Columbia Typewriter Manufacturing Company, is one of the oldest typewriters in The Collection. At once both familiar and somewhat alien to its more modern contemporaries, London would not have been able to see what he was typing behind the high typebar shield. As the American Writers Museum in Chicago noted in 2020, when it was part of its "Tools of the Trade" exhibit, "There are separate keys for lower and upper case letters and there is also a lack of an exclamation point - London would have had to first type a period and then added a capital 'I' above it." Its keyboard also boasts a layout foreign to modern typists: "2WBMRN" rather than the standard "QWERTY" along the top row of keys. Accompanied by related ephemera.
London has said, "If typewriters hadn't been invented by the time I began to write, I doubt if the world would have ever heard of Jack London. No one would have the patience to read more than a page of my longhand!"
Provenance: From The Soboroff Typewriter Collection
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2023 December 15 Historical Platinum Session Signature® Auction #6280 (go to Auction Home page)
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