Just to update here. I finally found a Remington Standard No. 6. It's serial number (155580) puts it made in 1906. This is the same year and make as H. P. Lovecraft's machine


By the way, here's a drawing I did in a lovecraft vein; 20 Derelict Cthuloids

My toy-wallet is reeling right now.
As you know, I'm an illustrator. I go to conventions and festivals querying for jobs and selling T-shirts and prints. The typewriter project grew out of an idea to make some money at a writer's convention, recreate the typewriters used by the greats. Sell them for an obscene mark-up.

Naturally, I'm now unwilling to part with any of them (I've only got 4).

Of all the antiques I've ended up with, almost nothing is worth selling right now. After 08, everything plunged. You would be a fool to sell antiques today, unless you had to... Not typewriters. Of all things to get interested in, typewriters have gone up and up.

I've tried to buy a '26 Underwood for years. Every time, I'm outbid by $1 during the last second. All the #5s have gone for well over $400. It's getting rich.

I've decided to start buying junkers to sell at conventions. Clean the up super good and oil them up.

Hi, I've just read this thread. It reminded me of this typewriter, which is the one Joseph Stefano used to write the screenplay of 'Psycho'. As the 'Private Eye' magazine catchphrase goes - could they by any chance be related? 

Here's Robert Bloch at an earlier typewriter, maybe in around 1945-50; and here's a brilliant article with several pictures of the SG1, though not of its front unfortunately. Uwe, can you see any clues here?

I'm wondering if maybe he wrote the novel Psycho on a different typewriter, and it goes conflated in the popular imagination with the one Stefano wrote the screenplay on? If Bloch's SG1 is a 1960+ model, isn't it possible that he bought it with the money FROM Psycho?