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Exemplar 300
Perhaps a prototype or one of a very small quantity made for Polk Brothers, a major but now defunct Chicago area retailer, this rebranded Princess 300 was produced in 1957. (I've never seen another example.) The owner's manual, most of whose text looks like it was typed and then photo-offset, gives the distributor as Polk Bros. Typewriter Co., Chicago 47. The manual indicates that the push button ribbon color selector on the left of the keyboard should show blue, red and white (for stencil), but the actual machine shows green, red and yellow (for stencil). The rocker button to the right of the keyboard is for setting and clearing tabs -- it's unusual to have a tabulator on such a flat machine; there's also a clear-all-tabs lever on the right-hand side of the carriage. Serial number 110208. Made in West Germany.
Exemplar 300
Perhaps a prototype or one of a very small quantity made for Polk Brothers, a major but now defunct Chicago area retailer, this rebranded Princess 300 was produced in 1957. (I've never seen another example.) The owner's manual, most of whose text looks like it was typed and then photo-offset, gives the distributor as Polk Bros. Typewriter Co., Chicago 47. The manual indicates that the push button ribbon color selector on the left of the keyboard should show blue, red and white (for stencil), but the actual machine shows green, red and yellow (for stencil). The rocker button to the right of the keyboard is for setting and clearing tabs -- it's unusual to have a tabulator on such a flat machine; there's also a clear-all-tabs lever on the right-hand side of the carriage. Serial number 110208. Made in West Germany.