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  1. Last 7 days
    1. reply to u/Fireflystudio at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1xn596e/remington_identification_help/

      They (the serial number prefix JT) sort of appear at https://typewriterdatabase.com/remington.42.typewriter-serial-number-database but as J, SJ, and EJT.

      You'll find two of them on https://typewriterdatabase.com/Remington.Standard.42.bmys. Your serial number seems to line up with the other Italian made ones, but the database doesn't seem to have any detail about years of manufacture for those serial numbers. Because they're fairly serious collectors who've listed theirs as early 1960s models (196X), yours was probably also early 1960s. The shift from the green keys to the white/gray chicklet design can be seen at the break between 1959 and 1960 for the Remington Quiet-Riter Eleven: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Remington.Quiet-Riter+Eleven.42.bmys

      Presumably the primary prefix model letter for the Remington Standard is "J" and the additional letters either indicate the factory/country of manufacture or other functionality. (Remington often added the letter "T" to some models to indicate tabulator or decimal tabulator, though in this case, as a standard, a simple tabulator would have been implied. Perhaps in your model's case the "T" stands for Torino which is likely the plant it was manufactured in in Italy. See also: https://www.nytimes.com/1951/10/08/archives/remington-rand-to-build-in-italy-company-to-construct-large-plant.html

      The SJ models seem to be from England, FJ models in France and another CJ model, potentially from Canada? Some additional research ought to uncover if this hypothesis holds.

      Torino, Italy

  2. Nov 2026
    1. https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1xn596e/remington_identification_help/

      Prior to this in the late 40s and early 50s were the Remington 17 and KMC versions before they switched to the Remington Super-Riter. This one with the push and slide margin controls marks it as a Remington Standard.

      There are only a few models in the database that have this body finish and "chicklet" style keys (Both James Grooms and Richard Polt have them), but perhaps this was a tooling change when they moved manufacture out of the US to Italy some time around 1962?

      These were used by Robby the Robot, Lina Wertmuller, and Grace Kelly. Mel Gibson's character used one in the 1982 movie The Year of Living Dangerously.

      Your machine should have the Fold-A-Matic feature which should help you clean out the internals: https://boffosocko.com/2024/12/06/using-the-fold-a-matic-feature-of-the-remington-standard-to-clean-oil-and-adjust/

      Should you need to replace some of the internal rubber grommets: https://boffosocko.com/2026/02/23/rubber-grommet-repair-on-remington-super-riters-and-standards/

      The manual: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonSuper-Riter.pdf

      There was a laterRemington 19 which had a plastic body and similar "chicklet" keys that showed up in the early 60s,

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    1. Pearl S. Buck and the 1930s RoyalStandard (with white keys) she used towrite The Good Earth, Jack Kerouac’sroad-weary Underwood Standard S,George Orwell’s Remington No. 2,Patricia Highsmith’s Olympia, Marga-ret Mitchell’s Remington No. 3 (whichher husband bought secondhand andshe relied on to type Gone With theWind and countless pieces of corre-spondence with fans).