1968 Royal Safari #SA7581361
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 06-13-2023 at 01:22PM
Last Edit: 08-03-2023 at 05:12PM
Description:
The thrift store down the hill is sprouting typewriters at an almost alarming rate. This one, at $25, was expensive by my standards, but it was in very good condition. The date is a guess based on where it fits among the other serial numbers in the galleries; if there is better information, please change it. This would be one of the last few hundred thousand Royal portables made in the United States.
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Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Christopher Bailey's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 844
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.
RESEARCH NOTE: When researching the Royal Safari on a computer with lots of screen real estate, you may find that launching the Royal Serial Number page and the Royal Safari By Model/Year/Serial page in new browser windows can give you interesting perspectives on changes throughout the model series.