1968 Royal 440 #440 11 9138373
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Michael Hoehne (mhoehne)
Created: 12-21-2013 at 10:09AM
Last Edit: 10-02-2017 at 12:35PM
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Description:
This is a substantial typewriter. It looks like it should be an electric but it is manual. I can't say how well it works, though, because the mechanism is either rusted or gunked or both and has not yet responded to my efforts to help.
It’s big and plain and it doesn’t do anything that 20 other of my typewriters don’t do, so why bother? For the challenge and satisfaction.
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Hunter: Michael Hoehne (mhoehne)
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While I find all of mankind's inventions interesting, I am most enchanted by the human-scale arts and devices, the ones that can be created (and repaired) in a home workshop or studio; the ones that can be understood by looking at them; the ones that do something useful or stir admiration. Typewriters work for me.
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