Seeking Solace in a Continental Portable Typewriter

In my haste to leave the building a week ago, I pressed "publish" instead of "close" and later found I'd committed thoughts and words to the Typosphere without including, as planned, images and a typecast.

The portable typewriter to which I referred in that post is this beautiful Continental. It is one of the machines I have taken out of storage. Even while it was locked away in the dark there (or perhaps because it was locked away in the dark), every time I looked at it, it cried out to me, "Type with me ... type with me ...."
So I have:

The Continental 340 is a direct descendant of the Wanderer Klein-Continental. The serial number on mine is R409742, which must make it a very close sibling of Florian's 340 (below), serial number R408753.

Florian dates his 340 as being from 1942. He has a very interesting post comparing various Continental portables here.

On the Wanderer Klein-Continental page of his Sommeregger's Sammelsurium (smorgasbord) website, here, Georg Sommeregger looks at his gorgeous dark blue Continental (below), which he says is a model 50 or 100 and dates from 1941-42.

Georg says these portables were produced from 1929 to 1948. "In 1933, the model 34, then 35, 50 and in 1938 100 came on the market."

This lovely faux woodgrain Continental was at one time for sale at Scott McNeill's Vintage Typewriter Shoppe.

It is, however, difficult to follow the Continental serial numbers sequence in the Typewriter Age Guide, except that anything above 255,001 and below 500,001 appears to have been made sometime between 1939 and 1946.

Here is the list from Dirk Schumann's Typewriter Database:

Klein-Continental

up to 10000 1930 (starting 1929)

30000 1932

50000 1933

60000 1934

100000 1936

New Model

up to 215000 1936

240000 1937

Richard Polt's Continental, serial number R257169, which he dates to 1938. See here.

Model 100 (starting 1938)

Runs in same serial numbers,

as with the new model of the Klein-Continental

274000 1938

307000 1939

329000 1940

338000 1941

355000 1942

373000 1943

380000 1944

500000 1946

501368 to 508240 1947

Florian's Continental 100, see here

Klein-Continental 34, W34

up to 105000 1933

108500 1934

Klein-Continental or Wanderer W35

up to 123345 1935 (starting 1934)

137000 1936

over 137000 1937

Klein-Continental or Wanderer W50

150000 1937

175000 1938

250000 1939

300000 1940

350000 1941

410000 1942

425000 1948

Alan Seaver's Continental, serial number 501962, which he dates to 1947. See here.

The Finnish Typewriter Museum has this 350 (serial number R189864), which dates from 1939:

And these two 340s (the top one from 1937, R146537, and the second one undated, R160270):

Here is another colour variation:

Some more images of my own Continental: