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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:
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7 comments:

  1. Ted16 March 2011 at 01:56

    Chrome? Royal? Portable? Envy! :D

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  2. Richard P16 March 2011 at 10:21

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

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  3. notagain17 March 2011 at 10:25

    Shiny!!

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  4. Dwayne F.20 January 2012 at 17:04

    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).

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  5. Robert Messenger22 January 2012 at 13:52

    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.

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  6. Eve16 September 2012 at 17:11

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

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  7. Robert Messenger16 September 2012 at 17:35

    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.

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