Wow, both of those machines are beauties in their own right. I intentionally don't look too closely at mechanical calculators when I see them at antique shows for fear that I'll start buying them too. Oddly enough, I saw a local ad yesterday for a Remington Rand typewriter, and this was the photo of it...

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Found it:

Saw a tiny glimpse of it.  Looked alot like an Underwood with one big margin in the middle of it.  I've heard of calculators and typewriters melded into one machine before.  I would imagine bookkeepers and accountants used those all the time.  At least what they had that was a step down was a non-calculating typewriter with a ten-key decimal tabulator.

Uwe wrote:

Javi wrote:

Here it is! The Remington Vertical Adder 21!

Very neat. Looks like it was rebuilt at some point - the plastic keys certainly aren't original, nor the paint I don't think. Does it work?
 

I agree, this has to be a rebuilt typewriter. At first I thought it was some strange Remington I didn´t know about, but it is a repainted Remington 12 with new keytops.

Sadly, it doesn´t work. The typewriter part is fine (I only need to replace the broken drawband), but there are some missing parts. There´s no first decimal tabulator key, and next to it there should be another weird key located on the outer frame. With these missing parts I seriously doubt it can calculate again. The calculator itself seems to be fine because each time you press a number all the gears turn, but I don´t have a clue if they work right or not. Apart from that, the counter at the top seems to be jammed. I´ll try to learn how this machine is supposed to work, because as for now I´m totally lost with it.