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Below this is a typo that states that “E” is the letter code for 1925, but this can be disregarded as it’s clear everywhere else that “H” is the year code for 1925.

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Then I centered my Chi and dove into the Corona 4’s.īMED 27 gives us the very first Corona 4 serial number, stating that it started in March of 1924 at serial number E200,001. Other than that and adding a few notes, I left the Corona 3 section largely alone, as it was fine as it was. The first job was to split out the Standard Folding from the Corona 3 in the TWDB and put a proper start to the Corona 3 in 1912. As Johnson put it “There are curently no widely known guidelines to differentiate a Zero and the Letter O, expert guidence welcome.” We’ll come back to that later.

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This is important because all later lists for Corona seem to have been distilled from versions of this list and I believe this caused a certain ambiguity about serial numbers past 1934. It is typed using a manifold-style all-caps machine which prints the capital letter “O” exactly the same as the number zero “0”. Starting with Berghagen 1953 (and 1962), which mirrors these exact numbers.

This table appears to be the source utilized by other sources.

NOMDA 41 is also the earliest list I know of for Corona, other than BMED 27, and it’s specificity suggests that NOMDA had direct access to Smith Corona’s production numbers. The list is very fresh, though – compiled while both the Corona 3 and 4 were still in production. Oddly, the Corona 4 numbers end in 1934 on this list, even though there is data for other models up to 1937.

It was published right as the Corona 3 and 4 ended, in 1941.

In combination with BMED 27’s usually January numbers, it gives us a *range* of production for the entire year for these early Coronas.

NOMDA 41’s numbers proved to be December numbers, or the *last* serial number reported for the given year.

Now the TWDB has a section for Standard Folding! Bonus! in combination with BMED 27, it gives us a pretty clear list for this model, which is usually lumped in with the Corona 3 in other sources.

It breaks down the production run of the Standard Folding #1 and #2.

NOMDA 41 is very interesting for a few reasons: From the Collection of Tony Casillo, contributed by Richard Polt.

National Office Machine Dealers Association Line Book, 1941. We have a copy of this source thanks to Mark Adams. The Business Machines and Equipment Digest, by Equipment Research Corp., Chicago, 1927. Two of the earliest sources stood out immediately: With Johnson’s shoulders to stand on, I followed his lead and looked first at the earliest data.

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I cracked open all the books and read for 3 days while sorting through the data. There are some ambiguities, though, and I sought to incorporate Johnson’s findings into the TWDB and clarify the ambiguities.įirst, as I always do when tackling one of these projects, I gather up all of my serial number sources and make copies of the relevant sections on Corona. This source illuminates Corona’s date coding and serialization method greatly, and Johnson modeled his page on BMED 27 very heavily and explains the date coding and color coding (for DUCO-finished machines) very well. Johnson had one resource that Dirk Schumann did not: the 1927 Business Machines and Equipment Digest. Confusing at best.Ī better source was S.L.

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