That’s why I make my writing with a typewriter. With tesseract I have a LibreOffice version in a few minutes.

Not just a scholar; Rashi is arguably the most important Jewish theologian, the Thomas of Aquinas of Judaism.

Your machine is not only pretty, but also very interesting!

So, after asking on the typewriter Discord, people there confirmed my suspicions, there’s something off with this number: it lacks a prefix and is black on white while normally they are white on black. Conclusion: it’s probably reinscribed, so there’s no way to know if it’s the original one or not.

However, the features are coherent for a machine with that serial, so it’s probable that it’s the original one, but reinscribed after a service, for example. So it looks like you have a machine constructed within the first year of production. It turns 100 this year, or in 2026, that’s cool :-).

But there’s also an other possibility: there’s stories that typewriter enthusiasts tell each others around campfires that some Underwood could have been assembled in Europe. Is the country of fabrication mentioned anywhere on the machine? Probably in the back, under the patents?

It looks like it is, and if it is you have a very old machine! Probably from 1925 or 1926 (the first year of production). But there’s something a little strange, so I’ll ask people more knowledgeable than me and I confirm this claim, or not.

Gorgeous thing! The model is quite easily discernable: it’s an Underwood Portable, in the 4-bank version (there were a 3-bank version too). Constructed between the end of the First World War and the Great Depression of 1929 and the 1950s, it’s a very beautiful machine!

If you give me its serial number (on the right front flange or leg by which the machine is fastened to the case board) I should be able to give you its exact year of construction, if you’re interested.

Thanks! Do you know the brand and / or model of your typewriter?

Thanks!

I first read “a zombie princess” and I like this idea more.

No, thanks to XWayland.

New proof we’re living in a horror film.

Their Llamas first.