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1955 Empire Aristocrat Serial # S2/250827 1955 Empire Aristocrat typewriter, Serial # S2/250827 Patrick Jamieson's 1955 Empire Aristocrat typewriter. 2022-07-26 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Patrick Jamieson: 1955 Empire Aristocrat Serial # S2/250827 Purchased from a thrift shop in Great Britain in June 2022. The keys were sticky, and about half a dozen of the type bars were not resting all the way back against the basket cushion. (See the "before" photo below.) Reforming minor bends in the associated type bar links fixed the resting position issue, and a good cleaning resolved the stickiness problem. I've also replaced the old, hardened rubber feet with new replicas. The typewriter now types nicely. I've married it with a zipping leather cover branded "Empire Aristocrat" that, oddly, I received along with an early 1950s Hermes Baby.

1955 Empire Aristocrat #S2/250827

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)
Created: 06-23-2022 at 01:54PM
Last Edit: 07-26-2022 at 10:39AM

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Purchased from a thrift shop in Great Britain in June 2022. The keys were sticky, and about half a dozen of the type bars were not resting all the way back against the basket cushion. (See the "before" photo below.) Reforming minor bends in the associated type bar links fixed the resting position issue, and a good cleaning resolved the stickiness problem. I've also replaced the old, hardened rubber feet with new replicas. The typewriter now types nicely. I've married it with a zipping leather cover branded "Empire Aristocrat" that, oddly, I received along with an early 1950s Hermes Baby.

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The typewriter as received, with some type bars not laying back against the basket cushion. That issue was resolved by reforming the associated type bar links.
The typewriter as received, with some type bars not laying back against the basket cushion. That issue was resolved by reforming the associated type bar links.

Hunter: Patrick Jamieson (pjamieson)

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I'm a semi-retired software/web developer with a now eight-year-old grandson, Jaxon, who is crazy about typewriters. In late 2021, at age six, Jaxon got a Montgomery Ward Escort 350 portable from Goodwill that absolutely fascinated him. He still takes it everywhere, and remains especially pleased that it has a key for the number one. He considers his Escort to be our best typer, but I think that honor goes to our second generation 1969 Hermes 3000. Jaxon's got me hooked, and now--between us--we have a growing collection of writing machines. Together, we've set up and equipped a small workshop area and, whenever we get the chance, we clean and perform minor repairs on our typewriters. Now that Jaxon's reading and writing skills are steadily improving, he rarely needs anyone to tell him how to spell the words he wants to type.

Newer to typewriter collecting than Jaxon, I am particularly interested in ultraportables and portables, and have developed a special fondness for Gossen, Hermes, and Rooy machines. I am also very interested in any brand/model with a HCESAR keyboard layout. A collector-at-heart--I have long collected West Indian fiction (40+ years) and Haitian art (30+ years)--I am old enough to have owned and regularly used typewriters back in the pre-PC days.


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