VTG or Antique Marchant Pinwheel Calculator Emblem
VTG or Antique Marchant Pinwheel Calculator EmblemMostly clean; some scratches; looks great!The Marchant nameplate from the front of the extending-segment machines (XL, XLA, and some full-keyboard models).Company founder Rodney Marchant studied business and commerce in San Francisco around 1900. While working as an office manager he developed several improvements to traditional bookkeeping systems, and in 1905 he travelled overseas to promote his Marchant Check Figure System in England and Europe. He was impressed with the potential of the European pinwheel calculators, which at that time were largely unknown in America. On his return he became the sales agent for the Dactyle pinwheel calculator (an Odhner-style machine made in France), which he marketed successfully from premises in Oakland, California.In 1958 Marchant merged with the Smith-Corona typewriter company to form Smith-Corona Marchant, which later became the SCM Corporation. (INV #14)