This Underwood red and black nylon typewriter ribbon fits any of the Underwood manual typewriters listed below. Are you wondering if this ribbon will fit your Underwood typewriter? Is your typewriter a vintage manual typewriter made before 1945? Does your typewriter use 2 inch in diameter spools? Does your typewriter use a ½ wide ribbon? If you can answer YES to these questions—then chances are that this red and black typewriter ribbon will fit your antique typewriter. You love antiques. You especially love your Underwood Typewriter.  Treat yourself to a fresh new red and black nylon ribbon. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: The spools for this ribbon are 2 inches in diameter. To avoid disappointment, please make sure your typewriter uses a spool that is 2 inches in diameter. You can measure the diameter of your original spools or the diameter of the place where the spool fits to determine your typewriter's spool diameter. Many of our customers simply wind the new ribbon around their original spools in order to use their typewriter.

Fits the following models:

• UNDERWOOD 10
• UNDERWOOD 11
• UNDERWOOD 14
• UNDERWOOD 15
• UNDERWOOD 18
• UNDERWOOD 19
• UNDERWOOD 21
• UNDERWOOD 400
• UNDERWOOD 555
• UNDERWOOD 565
• UNDERWOOD 565 CR
• UNDERWOOD 6
• UNDERWOOD Leader 
• UNDERWOOD O.S.
• UNDERWOOD PORTABLE
• UNDERWOOD STANDARD OS

About The Underwood Typewriter Company

The Underwood Typewriter Company was headquartered in New York City, New York. They produced what is considered the first widely successful, modern typewriter and by 1939 Underwood had produced five million machines!  Underwood dominated the American typewriter market for many years. In fact, the Underwood Model No. 5 was one of the most successful, four million of them alone were made. Many of these still exist today, exhibiting the quality, precision and its nearly-indestructible workmanship of this beautiful  and classic machine. 

Many classics of modern literature were written on an Underwood.  The traditional look of type on the page comes straight from an Underwood and the machine was a favorite of such writers as Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner. 

You should type using your beautiful Underwood, just to experience what it was like to be a typist in the days before electric typewriters and computers.