The Franklin 7 found in this collection came in March of 2022 from Connecticut.

The Franklin is of a front stroke design and had moderate success with about 20,000 machines produced. There is a few Variations of Cases offered for the Franklin, these include a metal, leather, wood, and a cloth over a cardstock type material. The Franklin’s keyboard is in an arc arrangement and of a 3-bank design. There is a space bar centered at the bottom of the keyboard with 2 shift keys on either side. The machine is of a carriage shift design rather than a basket shift. Although the Franklin was a 3-bank design it was of the single shift design, rather than the double shift design that was common on 3 bank machines. This required more keys to be used in the production of the machine. The type bars are a geared design like was used on Remington portables, but of a downstroke design. The type bar guide was built into the ink ribbon spool holder assembly mounted above the platen. The Ribbon could easily have the direction of spooling switched from the right to the left, to the left to the right, by rotation of a small knurled knob mounted by the spools. Production lasted from 1891-1905.