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[Ernest Hemingway]. 1926 Underwood Standard Portable (Serial Number 183598)....
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"All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" -- Ernest Hemingway
[Ernest Hemingway]. 1926 Underwood Standard Portable (Serial
Number 183598). 11 1/2" (L) x 8 1/4" (W) x 4 1/2" (H); original
case 12 1/2" x 9 1/2" x 5".Black ribbon. Paper label affixed to the bottom of the typewriter with "Ernest Hemingway / Key West, Fla." in an unknown hand. Normal wear from use.
Acclaimed novelist, Pulitzer Prize Winner, and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway's typewriter, likely acquired in the late 1930s, and used during the final decades of the author's life.
With six original envelopes and envelope fragments, five addressed to Hemingway, two of which were forwarded to him in Key West. Four envelopes contain postmarks dated 1934-1938.
Additional ephemera with the lot includes four photo negatives found hidden in the typewriter's case. When carefully restored by a conservator, the negatives were revealed to be photos of Hemingway's family, taken when the writer was a small child, at the family's cottage on Walloon Lake in Michigan.
Also included is a small manual, "Instructions for Using the Underwood Noiseless Portable Copyright 1932-1938." New York: Underwood Elliot Fisher Co., [1938]. Octavo, 4 pages. With "Return to Ernest Hemingway" in ink block letters on front wrapper.
The present typewriter was acquired through Christie's by private sale in 2011.
Provenance: From The Soboroff Typewriter Collection
Auction Info
2023 December 15 Historical Platinum Session Signature® Auction #6280 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
December, 2023
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