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1968 Royal Safari Serial # SA7581361 1968 Royal Safari typewriter, Serial # SA7581361 Christopher Bailey's 1968 Royal Safari typewriter. 2023-08-03 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1968 Royal Safari Serial # SA7581361 The thrift store down the hill is sprouting typewriters at an almost alarming rate. This one, at $25, was expensive by my standards, but it was in very good condition. The date is a guess based on where it fits among the other serial numbers in the galleries; if there is better information, please change it. This would be one of the last few hundred thousand Royal portables made in the United States.

1968 Royal Safari #SA7581361

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 06-13-2023 at 01:22PM
Last Edit: 08-03-2023 at 05:12PM

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The thrift store down the hill is sprouting typewriters at an almost alarming rate. This one, at $25, was expensive by my standards, but it was in very good condition. The date is a guess based on where it fits among the other serial numbers in the galleries; if there is better information, please change it. This would be one of the last few hundred thousand Royal portables made in the United States.

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The Magic Margins are still magic on this machine.
The Magic Margins are still magic on this machine.

I was testing the typewriter with a purple cash-register ribbon.
I was testing the typewriter with a purple cash-register ribbon.

Move the carriage all the way to the right to find the serial number.
Move the carriage all the way to the right to find the serial number.

An expensive typewriter by my standards. But I was in a splurging mood.
An expensive typewriter by my standards. But I was in a splurging mood.


The rear nameplate.
The rear nameplate.

Decades ago, someone taped something to the left side, and the machine will remember that day forever.
Decades ago, someone taped something to the left side, and the machine will remember that day forever.

The case is also in good shape.
The case is also in good shape.

Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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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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