Antique Typewriters
The Martin Howard Collection
Sterling 1Sterling Typewriter Company, Newark, New Jersey
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Very little is known about the Sterling typewriter and today model 1 is very rare, with only a handful known. Model 2 is also rare, with perhaps a dozen known.
Charles J. Paulson, ‘a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, residing in Brooklyn’, patented the Sterling in 1901, with the patent being granted in 1903. The Sterling 1 was manufactured by the Sterling Typewriter Company, Newark, New Jersey, likely in 1905, with the Sterling 2 appearing in 1911. The Sterling 1 was listed in the ‘The Annual report of the State Treasurer - New York (State) Treasurer's Office’, of 1905, with a price of $25.00, substantiating the likelihood that the Sterling 1 appeared on the market during that year.
Paulson was a professional inventor and patented many devices including a ‘means for securing measuring instruments centrally in bottles’, ‘means for renovating phonograph-needles’, and a ‘soap bubble generator’.
The Sterling was offered as a less expensive keyboard typewriter, priced at only $25.00, compared to $100 for other keyboard machines. A rare marketing reference for the Sterling 1 conveys this market position.
“Among the various typewriters that are being produced in the United States with the object of furnishing machines to those who are either unable or unwilling to pay the price of the regular standard machines, mention might be made of the Sterling Typewriter now being offered for export by the H. M. Nelson Company, Ltd.”
"Complete in every detail. Universal key-board, two color writing, light weight, interchangeable languages, and guaranteed durability."
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