There's a Hammond (I think) that is like this on display at the typewriter repair shop.  One of the guys pointed it out to me after we discussed a Hammond that a lady had brought in (it was in great shape btw) that she wanted to get woroking again.  He just didn't get it either why someone would chop the keys for jewelery.

After having seen some of the keychopped machines on ebay, (and in person), I don't either.  Of course, I don't think I ever had respect for them in the first place. 

This machine proves the ignorance of keychoppers to the value of typewriters.
if he/she just bothered to look up this machine they would have realized
that it is worth around $100 and is historically significant.
Now someone with a jigsaw and the necessary expertise could fix this thing right up.
As the key levers are made of wood. 

Need I say more?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NO-2-Machine-L-C-SMITH-BROS-Syracuse-N-Y-early-1900-Typewriter-PARTS-ONLY/322005677453?_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D35605%26meid%3Da1cbfd978e3040d5be0105ef63b1f748%26pid%3D100010%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D24%26sd%3D161973467433

Scrap the carcass?!?!?!?!  Jeez!!!!!!!!!! i get that the serial numbers are hard to find on these.  I'm tempted to email this person to inform them of where it might be.  Assuming that the location didn't change from no. 2 to no. 8 models.

Now I have heard lots of stories about how "keychoppers" will take an old typewriter, lop off all the keys, and sell them for jewelry or jewelry parts, without ever considering the value of the whole typewriter.  Typewriter repairmen have routinely taken typewriters, removed all the original keys and set them aside as spares, and then put new keys on and resold the typewriters.  I had seen and owned many carcasses sitting aside without keys and cannibalized for parts.  So, yes I've "keychopped," but only from a carcass parts machine to a machine I was repairing.