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Woodstock S/N
Please, help me to define year of manufacture of my Woodstock for Russia with s/n B-27980R
Thank you in advance
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Re: Woodstock S/N
Nikolai, it appears from the Typewriter Database that Woodstocks with a serial number beginning with B are from 1916-20:
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Re: Woodstock S/N
Thank you for your reply. But I wanted an accurate year, and could not find anywhere
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Re: Woodstock S/N
Nikolai, It would depend on which Woodstock model you have.
A Woodstock B- prefix serial number indicates a machine that was manufactured between 1914 and 1921. However, Beeching specifically cites a Model 4 with a serial number B26433 as being manufactured in 1914. Using that typewriter as an example, if your machine is also a Model 4 then it would be fairly safe to narrow down its manufacture year to either 1914 or 1915.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: Woodstock S/N
Nikolai wrote:
Thank you for your reply. But I wanted an accurate year, and could not find anywhere
I think this is impossible.The 1924 edition of "The Digest of Business Machines",(Richard Polt's webpage), explains that the Woodstock serial numbers were not sequential, but a code. I take from this it is something only company records would decipher. The prefixes give a range and not much more. I discovered this trying to date my B prefix Woodstock Model 5. Maybe there's other information to extrapolate such as Uwe's, but I'm still open to find it.
