1971 Royal Mercury #MC 1812919
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jonathan Danz (Jehosephat)
Created: 07-29-2025 at 06:58PM
Last Edit: 07-29-2025 at 07:11PM
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I got this from an ongoing estate sale at an old schoolhouse outside of Rocky Mount, VA. The woman who sold it to me said she'd used it in high school and she wanted to see it go to someone who appreciated it and would use it. I brought it home, cleaned it up and use it quite often as it just works. It may be a bit clanky, but I can count on it and it's one of the smaller portables. I used it enough to resurface the platen and turn to it more often than I thought I would when I first picked it up.
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Hunter: Jonathan Danz (Jehosephat)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 64
I live in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia where I write, mountain bike and search for typewriters. I'm relatively new to collecting and am doing my best to keep it smallish, which, as you know, is not easy. I gravitate toward interesting-to-me post WWII standards and portables. I am a writer and find typewriters to be fantastic for focused work, plus I love the calming orderliness of the keyboard and the meditative tapping of the slugs on paper. Writing novels doesn't allow for regular feedback, so it's nice seeing the physical pages pile up as I go. People talk about how amazing modern mobile phones are in that we have a computer in our pocket, and they're not wrong, but having a printing machine you can carry around is pretty amazing too. Especially when your handwriting is as illegible as mine.
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