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- TypewriterGuy
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
It has the same logo and coloring, so thats very interesting.... I wonder...
Royal couldn't of have made stoves or something, or toys, right?
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- TypewriterGuy
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
I did a quick search... Apparently, there was another company who made cooking stoves and those toys or sample ones... I would have thought the companies would have had an argument with the colors and the logo.
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- Fleetwing
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
So, please let us know which one you are going back to get! (or better yet, post pictures of it upon your successful return.) I agree, the prices looked pretty reasonable. I liked that KHM, and the Adler really would have been hard to resist (though I didn't see a price).
- colrehogan
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
I think the cameras might have been posted for my benefit? Same with those machines with the decimal tabulators? Saw that LC Smith with the decimal tabulator. I need a spare paper finger for mine.
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- Spazmelda
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
Colrehogan, I like cameras too, though I don't collect them . I do have one of those accordion style cameras, I think it is from around 1920 or so. I managed to get it to take a few pictures when I still had a darkroom and a large format enlarger. I don't know where the pictures ended up.
That LC Smith was in pretty bad shape and they wanted too much for it considering the shape, I think.
I got the KHM. It is in fabulous shape. The only things wrong so far that I can tell are that the right spool cover does not latch closed. The little tab has broken off. And the paper support decal has either been painted over or something. I can still see a raised place where the Royal emblem was, but it is shiny and black. Not sure what happened there. If it was painted over, it was professionally done I think. It seems as if it may have had the platen replaced at some point, because it is still supple.
Serial number is H-1,669,048, but I haven't looked it up yet.
Oh, the Adler was something like $69 or so. I was tempted by it too, but I thought that was too high.
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Thread Starter- Spazmelda
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
So, it turns out that according to the typewriter database, this machine, whatever it is... just predates the KHM.
The serial number is H-1,669,048.
The typewriter database says this in the line for 1,617,000 (1934): ""H" and "KH" in 1,664,000 to 1,850,000 ("K" means Keyset)"
For the next series 1,723,000 (1935), ""KHM" started at 1,850,000. Initals mean: K - Key Set, HM - H Model, DT - Keyset, KDTHM - H Model 5 key Keyset."
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Thread Starter- Gabby Johnson
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Re: Pics from the antique mall today
