Antique Typewriters
The Martin Howard Collection
Rem-Sho no. 4Remington - Sholes Co., Chicago
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The Rem-Sho has an impressive neoclassical design, styled somewhat in the form of a Greek temple, with a bronzed cast iron frame.
The Rem-Sho was the first typewriter to have the whole type-basket, of type-bars, move for a character shift instead of shifting the platen. This was the forerunner of what would be the standard method to shift characters on 20th century typewriters.
The name Rem-Sho reflects the two inventors of this typewriter. Franklin Remington was a member of the Remington family that manufactured the first commercially successful typewriters and Sholes was the son of Christopher Lathen Sholes who invented the Remington 1 typewriter or the Sholes and Glidden as it is called.
In 1901 the Rem-Sho was renamed Fay-Show (C.N. Fay the firm's President) due to legal action taken by the Remington Typewriter Company, which was no longer part of the Remington family, to stop its name being used by a competitor. The first advertisement below, shows the result of this action.
Detailed Typewriter Image
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Period Advertisement
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