1928 Remington Portable No 2

The Remington Portable first appeared in the market in the 1920s. This one is a rare find!
This wasn’t the first portable (previous portables Blickensderfer and the Standard), but it was the first portable that uses a 4 bank standard keyboard.
The Remington Portable uses a unique method of raising the typebars to the typing position.
On the right side is a lever which one slides toward the rear to raise and slides to toward the front to lower.

The early Remington Portable have a single shift key on the left side, whereas the later versions have shift keys on both sides of the keyboard. This doesn’t seem to appear regularly until the model #2 like shown here.

The spools in this Remington Portable should be labelled Left Spool and Right Spool. Two right spools were used with the one on the left having some of the label painted over.

In the case is the original cleaning brush.

The serial # suggests that this model was created in October of 1928. As early as 1925, multiple color portables were being created.

Another clear indicator that this is a #2 is that it has typebar guards — the hooked pieces of metal that curve around the leftmost and rightmost typebars.
The carriage on the #1 is just wide enough to accept an 8-1/2 inch sheet of paper. The #2 carriage is wide enough to accept a 9-1/2 inch business envelope.