1961 Royal Futura 800 #2A4513462
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
Created: 02-04-2025 at 06:02PM
Last Edit: 02-04-2025 at 06:02PM
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Purchased in January 2024 from the original owner. Really clean typewriter with its original manuals and case hang tag. Installed a new ribbon and it was ready to go. I like the MCM angled style of these typewriters, but the Royals from this era feel a bit finicky to me. One thing I found annoying about this typewriter was that the ribbon cover must be opened in order to change the ribbon color. That's not always practical, because sometimes the return lever is in the way.
Sold February 2024.
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Hunter: Greg Mattesen (CoronaKid)
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I "accidentally" started collecting typwriters in the fall of 2020. After my daughter got one cheap at a junk shop, and hearing that she intended to use it to write some old fashioned snail-mail letters to friends, I decided to get "a" typewriter myself to do the same. The first one was a real lucky break: a pristine 1950 Smith-Corona Sterling in perfect condition. From there I got interested in other brands and in refurbishing dirty and forgotten machines. I've had 65+ typewriters at this point, passing many along to excited new owners to keep my collection hovering around 20 machines.
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