That is a beautul green and white typewriter, I take it as foreign made?,  and the sea, white table with hat and note pad:  arresting.   Does it type as nice as it looks?    I have a Royal Arrow, made in Holland, smallish and light, weighs nine pounds..   It looks more utilitarian and types a little rougher too.  But it is ok for something to cary around.  
    I have several portables which weigh 14 to 15 lbs. each.  

Just being mischevious !  Are you sure it was made in Germany ?  Most of the later Travellers were actually made in Yugoslavia by a firm called UNIS which sub-contracted to Olympia.  The way to tell is to look at the back of the casing.  If there is a aluminium plate rivetted on with the words 'Olympia AG - Wilhelmshaven', it's German.  If there are just two tiny holes (where the plate would have been rivetted on), it's Yugoslavian.  Not that it matters.  The Yugoslavs made an excellent job of manufacturing these machines to German standards.  Other clues are the UNIS logo in the frame casings, and on earlier production, moulded inside the plastic snap-over carry case.

I found this machine in a trash pile by a thrift store.  It was dirty with typebars stuck together.   I took it home, cleaned it up, put solvent on the keys, and ;it worked fine.   Also,  it had been little used with a perfect platen, no dents and still soft.  It has a Pica slugs.   I also found a user manual with it.    

 I like the earlier models before 1950, still I have a few later that work well.  A Smith Corona of 1952 that was given to me.  I did not care for the rounded and thinner metal case, but it typed well: no skips or run-ons, rather a firm typer.  But as I used it I became more fond of its accuracy.  I have a Remmington that looks like a mid 1940`s--the case is even made of wood covered by fabric.  Its called a Remmington Lite Typer with pica slugs, but oh, what a easy going feeling it has.   The casing is of a heaver metal than the Smith.   Looking up the serial# it came out as a 1952;  could those serials be innacurate?  I  read that sometimes they are.  
    Looking up some history of Rems.,  a collector called those of the 1930`s, "those sweet Remmingtons."   I have to agree about mine, it has a sweet action, and the adjustments are all obvious and handy, simple and easy to use.   It is brown with crinkle coat paint.    

Notquite_there wrote:

What are the characteristics of the earlier Royal Arrows?

An exemplary design, but more importantly, they had a very precise typing action. My wife, who is very unimpressed with my need to collect typewriters, tried the 1947 Arrow that I have and promptly claimed that it now belonged to her. She types must faster than I do, and has tried out a number of models that I own, but none made the impression on her that the Arrow did. 

I would argue that the Olympia SM3 and Smith-Corona Super-5 models that were produced just after the Arrow are even better machines, but it was the Arrows styling that also helped to win her over. The squat Kleenex box look with its nickel-trimmed keys is a nice combination of sophistication and rugged machine.

I mentioned to her that it was this exact model that Hemingway once used - among other typewriters - but that didn't impress her in the least. It was the machine's performance that sealed the deal for her and not its reputation.

Hemingway's Royal Arrow: