1961 Royal Futura 800 #2A4664001
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
Created: 07-12-2025 at 12:24PM
Last Edit: 07-12-2025 at 12:30PM
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Finally added the Royal Futura 800 Americana in the red, white, and blue color scheme. This was a surprise gift from my wife and I really appreciate it. This little typer came out of Pennsylvania complete with the case. Appropriately, this marks the 100th typewriter in the collection.
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Hunter: Stephen Clancy (navyldolcdr)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 1537
Retired in June of 2015 and relocated from IL to NC (no more snow and cold but unfortunately, no more Portillo's Chicago dogs either). Missed my old manual typewriter and went on the hunt for a replacement. My first find was a 1920 Royal Model 10 (second design with the dual side glass) . Have always been very fond of typewriters, from the old portable that my mother used, to my first typing class in 1967, then on into the Navy where, as a Communications Yeoman, I worked on the AN/UGC-6 with the 28 ASR (automatic send receive) teletype machine as well as the IBM card punch machines in use at the time. I guess you can say that from 1967 onward, I have been typing on one machine or another, and now have started collecting as my little part in the preservation of the great machines of he past.
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