This weekend I attended an auction in a nearby town and purchased a Royal Empress. It was not listed on the sale bill and I happened upon it by accident outside on a hay rack of woodworking tools and fishing equipment. Not a typewriter crowd, my initial two-dollar bid won it. Has a nicotine problem on the keys but seems rust free and clean underneath. The keys are stiff so it will get a good mineral spirit cleaning and the carriage return arm is snapped off, otherwise I like it. Another large by huge standard....anybody have a spare carriage return arm?????

52, male

I'm not sure of the model as it won't be here until tomorrow. I'm far too old to qualify as a member of todays youth but that doesn't rule out my being functionally illiterate. And it is William S. Burroughs' typewriter, just not THAT William S. Burroughs. It was his granddads'...kinda sorta.....

I am in need of the paper table and the top cover that goes behind it for a 1950's Remington Quiet-Riter. Everything else is good, those are missing. Thanks.  

It varies. Two from an individual, two from a second hand store, and one from an antique store. The second hand store is the kind where people donate unwanted items and the store sells them to aid the local sheltered workshop. My Underwood Champion came from an auction. It's the time of year when people clean out their closets to make room for Christmas gifts.