1962 Royal Royalite #RL-5175431
Status: Sightings
Hunter: LaDonna Qualtieri (Sk8rcruz)
Created: 11-24-2023 at 06:13PM
Last Edit: 08-07-2024 at 01:28AM
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Description:
I had a ‘59 that I really liked but couldn’t resist handing it off to a new typewriter enthusiast. This one can up for a good price and seems to need very little work so here I am with a replacement! I looked at Royalite type samples and they all seem the same up to about 1965, or so. A pica with a very distinct “Q” tail. I didn’t find a name for this typeface in the NOMDA and would like to know what it’s called. Edit: this machine had a broken part and hung up at center carriage. I gave it away.
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Hunter: LaDonna Qualtieri (Sk8rcruz)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 576
I have many pen pals and correspond via handwritten and typed letters. I have a (painful) sitting disability and type while standing- UPDATE! I can also type on an ultraportable I set up on my bed. Typing and collecting machines with different typefaces keeps me busy and happily distracted from the difficulties in life-fountain pens, too, and I can write legibly, in cursive, while laying down. Join me on Type Pals and register for the monthly postcard exchanges. The “Cat Mews” is a quarterly publication of the philatelic topical group Cats On Stamps Study Unit (COSSU), for which I am a column contributor. My cats are Wiffle Wizard and Urushi (Rushi) Blizzard, aka the Blizzard Sisters.
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