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
Description:
This is a very beautiful Royal Bar-Lock 10, from 1909 or 1910.
āBar-Lockā typewriters were originally invented in US by Charles Spiro, a great typewriter pioneer.
Itās 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 āBar-lockā 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.
Typeface Specimen:
Photos:
Hunter: fausto tomesani (Oldtypewritersandcalculators)
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I inherited a collection of around 400 old typewriters and calculators from my father, who collected them for 50 years.
I also have a YouTube channel featuring these typewriters.
The pictures are made by my wife who is a photographer. Her name is Milena.
This gallery is managed by her,
So if you like the pictures don't thank me but her.
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