1932 Royal Signet #E8545
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jonathan Mitchell (Ouzelum)
Created: 12-11-2014 at 04:07PM
Last Edit: 12-12-2014 at 09:25PM
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Description:
A depression era typewriter that I picked up out of curiosity.
It lacks a shift key, but also has a san-serif font, slightly italicized, which I read that Royal said was designed to make it as readable as possible (not a direct quote).
It is certainly a cute little typewriter, and entertaining to type on.
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Hunter: Jonathan Mitchell (Ouzelum)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 230
A writer and beginner collector/restorer of typewriters. I'd always written a few pages a day, been sort of a habit for a number of years now, and I saw a few typewriters in movies and loved the sound they made, so I decided to buy one to see what it was like.
Ended up with a Olivetti Lettera 22, and after writing about a hundred pages with it, I was hooked.
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