- TypewriterGuy
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Re: The American Gallery
Its survived a looooooooooooooonnnnngggggg journey.....
First one on the database with pictures :D
Back from a long break.
Starting fresh with my favorite typer. A Royal Futura!
- Uwe
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Re: The American Gallery
1964 Royal Empress
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: The American Gallery
1959 Royal Futura 800
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: The American Gallery
Great shots of these machines! Nice just to browse through them now and then.
Sincerely,
beak.
- Fleetwing
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Re: The American Gallery
Yes indeed. Wonderful lighting and composition, like Uwe's earlier pictures in this thread.
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- PaulInSanDiego
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Re: The American Gallery
1916 Royal 10. It took me a long time to find an early machine with the elegant, but short-lived, pin striping in this condition. The articulated, mechanical paper guide and the paper table are a nice touch.
"We didn't exactly believe your story Miss O'Shaugnessy. We believed your two hundred dollars."
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Re: The American Gallery
Fleetwing wrote:
Yes indeed. Wonderful lighting and composition, like Uwe's earlier pictures in this thread.
It may be faint praise to say that Uwe's 1964 Royal Empress image would not look out of place in a gallery of contemporary photography, but I'd go further and say it would be one of the ones which would make you stop a second and actually admire the photograph.
"Damn the torpedoes! Four bells, Captain Drayton".
- roller_delawer
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Re: The American Gallery
Very nice photos and machines. Thank you for posting. specially the artistic pictures from Uwe.
- BangoDeschain
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1946 Underwood Universal Portable
My first clean up job! So exciting to be working with these machines. Gave the casing a tender scrubbing with soapy water and my trusty toothbrush, cleaned and lubed parts in need with Hoppe's Gun Oil, and gave the keys a good once over. (Any recommendations on a metal polish for the shiny bits?) Still have some work ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to it!
Overall, the old girl types like a dream and has a beautiful tone. Thank you all for the information you've contributed to this site! It helped like nobody's business!
Regards,
Bango
- PaulInSanDiego
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1946 Underwood Universal Portable
(Any recommendations on a metal polish for the shiny bits?) Still have some work ahead of me, but I'm looking forward to it! Bango
I use Flitz Metal Polish. Gentle and it does the job nicely. Nice looking Universal. My advice after reading your test typing: Stay out of hotel management. (=
Best regards,
PaulInSanDigo
"We didn't exactly believe your story Miss O'Shaugnessy. We believed your two hundred dollars."
