1938 Royal KMM #MM12-2310392
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Types McGilicuddy (TypesMcGilicuddy)
Created: 06-09-2025 at 04:20PM
Last Edit: 06-09-2025 at 04:22PM
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Description:
This beauty was recently brought into a local thrift store, presumably by a weightlifter. Solid steel chassis isn't moving on the desk, for sure. Two small oddities: first, it has green plastic oblong keys, which I've found on a few others here, but no 1938s. Second, it lacks two buttons (Tab Clear at upper left and Tab Set at upper right) that seem to be found on every other KMM. The slots for the buttons are there, but appear to have been capped at the factory and never installed. The typeface is tiny and not very attractive; I'm guessing this model was used primarily for filing in forms, invoices, etc.
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Hunter: Types McGilicuddy (TypesMcGilicuddy)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 50
An old soul in an even older body. Lifelong writer who started on a typewriter, forgot that they existed when computers came on the scene, and then rediscovered their utility (and blessed simplicity!) as a Weapon of Mass Creation. Have owned 10+ but am now limiting myself to 5 machines at a time [UPDATE: 6. May God forgive me], and committing to actually using them on a daily, weekly, or (at worst) monthly basis.
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