1975 Royal Sabre #SB9045200
Status: My Collection
Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 03-13-2024 at 10:50AM
Last Edit: 01-06-2025 at 11:30AM
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A little used case queen that cleaned up nice despite some mechanism surface rust. Royal milking the QDL in as many variants and as long as possible. The end is near. The 1975 advertisement tells the tale. From the era when the best about a Royal was the case.
My mother says I wore her Safari out, but I have no memory of a yellow Safari. I do remember the No. 5 and a number of Smith Coronas. Maybe even as a small child I knew it was a bad typewriter and excised it from my memory?
6.4.1.2.3.3 = 19/27 or C-.
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Fixed the motion.
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Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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As with many, the bug is back there somewhere due to an Underwood No. 5. My grandfather was on a small town school board and used one for this. My parents had a yellow Royal Safari that I used to index card everything, including a beer can collection. Collection syndrome clue! The long dormant tic was activated when my neighbors left a Remington Quiet Riter on the curb when they moved in circa 2010, Yes a believe it or not story is next, when a Hermes 3000 comes home with the girlfriend from work for free. Yes, free! From there the addiction is full steam. And yes, I now have a No. 5. Typewriters are the perfect blend of using one's technical skills, history and functional purpose.
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