198X Royal (Messa) Safari #6221056
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 03-29-2023 at 02:15PM
Last Edit: 03-29-2023 at 02:17PM
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Description:
Found in a thrift store in very good shape—even the ribbon was fresh. Not the best typewriter ever made, but it types neatly, and it is light and easy to carry.
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Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 867
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.
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