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1938 Royal De Luxe Serial # A 755356 1938 Royal De Luxe typewriter, Serial # A 755356 Gerald Ambrose's 1938 Royal De Luxe typewriter. 2024-06-01 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Gerald Ambrose: 1938 Royal De Luxe Serial # A 755356 Found at an antique store. At the time I was looking for a 1930s Royal Portable and that might have caused me to overlook a few issues that I didn’t notice until I was home….
The paper guide is missing from the paper table, the return lever or its mount are bent or just worn out and touching the ribbon cover, the variable line adjustment is broken owing to pot metal cracking on the platen end, and the platen is full of tiny cracks. I also thought that the paint was just dusty, but recently I realized it is nicotine stained. Overall the machine is in worse shape than I thought and you can tell it has had a life of heavy use.
Oddly, the type action is as good as any Royal Portable typewriter I’ve used, which is to say I like it. I don’t know what I am going to do with it yet. Maybe a restoration project.

This is one of several typewriters from 1938 I have found this year.

1938 Royal De Luxe #A 755356

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Gerald Ambrose (Oliver9)
Created: 09-14-2023 at 06:51AM
Last Edit: 06-01-2024 at 09:27AM

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Found at an antique store. At the time I was looking for a 1930s Royal Portable and that might have caused me to overlook a few issues that I didn’t notice until I was home….
The paper guide is missing from the paper table, the return lever or its mount are bent or just worn out and touching the ribbon cover, the variable line adjustment is broken owing to pot metal cracking on the platen end, and the platen is full of tiny cracks. I also thought that the paint was just dusty, but recently I realized it is nicotine stained. Overall the machine is in worse shape than I thought and you can tell it has had a life of heavy use.
Oddly, the type action is as good as any Royal Portable typewriter I’ve used, which is to say I like it. I don’t know what I am going to do with it yet. Maybe a restoration project.

This is one of several typewriters from 1938 I have found this year.

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Hunter: Gerald Ambrose (Oliver9)

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I started collecting typewriters several years ago and it started with a late 1960s Smith-Corona Sterling portable that I got as a gift.


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