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Wednesday 16 March 2011

Prince in Shining Armour: A right regal Royal

The sleek black Fox No 24 was joined in the Australian Typewriter Museum in Canberra this evening by this shiny chromed Royal portable:

7 comments:

Ted said...

Chrome? Royal? Portable? Envy! :D

Richard P said...

Stop it, Robert! Drool is bad for my computer keyboard!

notagain said...

Shiny!!

Dwayne F. said...

Such a gorgeous machine! I searched high and low and was happy to find this close cousin to a Royal of mine soon to be blogged.

Have you seen other examples of chrome plated Royals? There isn't much that turns up in a Google search (as in yours is the only one).

Robert Messenger said...

Hi Dwayne. Thank you. No, I haven't seen any others like this. Alan Seaver, of course, has a lovely sterling silver plated Smith-Corona Sterling, and I have seen other silver-plated machines.

Eve said...

OMG!!! I am so in love with this typewriter!!!! I need to start searching for it

Robert Messenger said...

Sorry, Eve, it was a one of a kind and if you read my post about Scott Kernaghan's visit here last Tuesday and Scott's blog "Flithy Platen" on his visit here, you will see Scott now owns it.