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Smith & Bros No 2 as their first typewriter. His ultimate reaction was to quit his company, recruit his brothers and start the L.C.Smith typewriter Company in Syracuse, New York with The L.C. Lyman tried to convence his board (and the Typewriter Trust) to allow him to retool and come out with visible typwriter models, but it didn't happen. Smith Premiers were understrikes, meaning their keys struck the bottom of the platen and not the top of the platen like the more modern typewriters of the time did. The Smith Priemers enjoyed great success but around the turn-of-the-century visible typewriting was becomming the prefered choice. Smith must have seen or heard of the sucess of the Remington typewriter transaction and set off making the first Smith Premier typewriters. At this time in American history, except for a few niche markets, firearms manufacturing was at best a troubled industry. After the Civil War, surplus guns were abundent and they were quite inexpensive. Smith Gun Company in Syracuse, New York and, like Remington, was looking for non firearm products since the civil war was over and the market for guns was greatly diminished. Smith in 1888 purchased the rights to the Smith Premier One typewriter from its inventor, Alexander Timothy Brown. The Smith Premier typewriter started what would become one of the most important sagas in typewriter history. A Historic 1850s Farmhouse on a Scenic Vermont Dairy Farm