1968 Royal (Silver-Seiko) Mercury #MC 8468106
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Robert Clendaniel (RCCJR)
Created: 03-19-2019 at 11:48AM
Last Edit: 11-07-2021 at 04:03PM
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I bought this little (!) beauty at a consignment auction in Delaware in March 2019. After a little cleaning and a new ribbon, she works pretty well! I'll be sending her off to a new home in Tennessee tomorrow.
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Hunter: Robert Clendaniel (RCCJR)
Robert Clendaniel's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 223
I'm an architect by day and an incorrigible tinkerer by night. I prowl thrift stores, auctions, and antique shops looking for old mechanical things to fix up. My entry drugs were fountain pens and wind-up tin toys, but before long I had gone to the harder stuff - watches and clocks. Finally, I broke down and decided to try "just one" typewriter - a 1948 Royal KMM. I told myself I wouldn't do any more until I got rid of it, but didn't know you could get hooked so easily. Fourteen typewriters later, I still have the KMM, and am still looking for that next fix. I'm expecting an intervention from the family soon.
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