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1910 Royal Bar-lock 10 Serial # 169738 1910 Royal Bar-lock 10 typewriter, Serial # 169738 fausto tomesani's 1910 Royal Bar-lock 10 typewriter. 2024-01-03 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of fausto tomesani: 1910 Royal Bar-lock 10 Serial # 169738 This is a very beautiful Royal Bar-Lock 10, from 1909 or 1910.
“Bar-Lock” typewriters were originally invented in US by Charles Spiro, a great typewriter pioneer.
It’s a typewriter quite particular with many differences from the nowadays typewriters.
It has long typing bars and a double keyboard.
It is of course a British made typewriter.
There is a very nice brass shield painted black with the embossed name Bar-Lock.
The decorated semi-oval cover, in addition to embellishing the machine, protected the writing bars mechanism.
The “Bar-lock” name derive from a system of alignment of the typing bars, with a row of vertical pins in front of the roller.
When you type a character, the bar is blocked by a series of small pins which prevent it from oscillating and distorting the writing.
The bars are locked by these pins, hence the name.
Since there is a character for every button, also every bar has one character.
The keyboard has 88 buttons, and there are two sets of letters, with the universal QWERTY system, both uppercase and lowercase, with different colours.
The keyboards were commonly made with black and white diversification of keyboards for lowercase and uppercase letters.

1910 Royal Bar-lock 10 #169738

Status: My Collection
Hunter: fausto tomesani (Oldtypewritersandcalculators)
Created: 12-29-2023 at 03:00PM
Last Edit: 01-03-2024 at 02:16PM

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Description:

This is a very beautiful Royal Bar-Lock 10, from 1909 or 1910.
“Bar-Lock” typewriters were originally invented in US by Charles Spiro, a great typewriter pioneer.
It’s a typewriter quite particular with many differences from the nowadays typewriters.
It has long typing bars and a double keyboard.
It is of course a British made typewriter.
There is a very nice brass shield painted black with the embossed name Bar-Lock.
The decorated semi-oval cover, in addition to embellishing the machine, protected the writing bars mechanism.
The “Bar-lock” name derive from a system of alignment of the typing bars, with a row of vertical pins in front of the roller.
When you type a character, the bar is blocked by a series of small pins which prevent it from oscillating and distorting the writing.
The bars are locked by these pins, hence the name.
Since there is a character for every button, also every bar has one character.
The keyboard has 88 buttons, and there are two sets of letters, with the universal QWERTY system, both uppercase and lowercase, with different colours.
The keyboards were commonly made with black and white diversification of keyboards for lowercase and uppercase letters.

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From top. Look at the beautiful writing in gold.
From top. Look at the beautiful writing in gold.

There are 2 sets of keys, one for the majuscules and one for the minuscules.
There are 2 sets of keys, one for the majuscules and one for the minuscules.


There is a front nice decoration-
There is a front nice decoration-


Interline mechanism
Interline mechanism


Gold writings on the back. In the middle there is the Royal symbol
Gold writings on the back. In the middle there is the Royal symbol

Here the Royal symbol, the the Royal motto.
Here the Royal symbol, the the Royal motto.

The typing bars. Every bar has only one character.
The typing bars. Every bar has only one character.

The ribbon seems very complicated to change
The ribbon seems very complicated to change

The bar-lock system
The bar-lock system

The keyboard in different colours.
The keyboard in different colours.

the serial number
the serial number

Hunter: fausto tomesani (Oldtypewritersandcalculators)

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