1960 Royal Heritage #H-4411276
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 10-25-2023 at 04:06PM
Last Edit: 10-31-2023 at 10:02AM
Description:
A thrift-store find in good shape, but with a hard platen and a wobbly return lever. Writes well with a new ribbon.
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Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Christopher Bailey's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 867
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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