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1953 Royal Quiet De Luxe Serial # RA-2847592 1953 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter, Serial # RA-2847592 Christopher Bailey's 1953 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter. 2024-02-07 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1953 Royal Quiet De Luxe Serial # RA-2847592 A machine in good shape from the ugliest period of American typewriter design. Its color scheme of muck brown and scum green matches my 1953 Royal HH perfectly, so that it really does seem to be the portable version of the office standard.

1953 Royal Quiet De Luxe #RA-2847592

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 02-07-2024 at 03:06PM
Last Edit: 02-07-2024 at 03:25PM

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A machine in good shape from the ugliest period of American typewriter design. Its color scheme of muck brown and scum green matches my 1953 Royal HH perfectly, so that it really does seem to be the portable version of the office standard.

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Most of the spots of correction fluid I mention below came off with a light scraping with my fingernail. I’m pretty sure they were correction fluid, although these keyboards are also prone to weird white plastic rot that causes a fungus-like white coating to appear.
Most of the spots of correction fluid I mention below came off with a light scraping with my fingernail. I’m pretty sure they were correction fluid, although these keyboards are also prone to weird white plastic rot that causes a fungus-like white coating to appear.





Move the carriage all the way to the right to reveal a little hole full of gunk and serial number. On this unit, though, there was surprisingly little gunk.
Move the carriage all the way to the right to reveal a little hole full of gunk and serial number. On this unit, though, there was surprisingly little gunk.


Rear decal.
Rear decal.

The carriage-tension adjustment is unusual on portables.
The carriage-tension adjustment is unusual on portables.




Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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I’m a writer who often writes with a typewriter to get away from the computer for a while. I think I became a typewriter collector when I bought my typewriters some industrial-grade wheeled steel shelving from a restaurant supply house. Before that I was just an accumulator, but now I’ve spent more on shelves than on all the typewriters put together. (They were all cheap.)

I have steel pens, too, which I also write with regularly. Both collections started at the same moment in 1990, at the liquidation of the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain, where I bought a Woodstock typewriter, two gross of Esterbrook Jackson Stub pens, and three bottles of Carter’s green ink.


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