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Royal help
Hi. First time posting. I recently purchased a Royal Typewriter at an estate sale, sight unseen. Just got it home. I consider myself a decent googler/researcher but cannot seem to find one quite like this. The serial number is K12-1576075. Can anybody tell me anything about it based on that? It has the glass panels on the side. And it has 5 rows of keys with the top row being full of numbers 1, 10, 100, 10th's, etc. It's in great shape. Haven't tested it to see if it's working. I got it for my 12 year old son who absolutely loves old typewriters. Thank you for the help.
- ztyper
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Re: Royal help
Hmm... I know the "K" prefix in the serial number belongs to the KHM line, but I'm confused by the "12" in the first part of the serial number. I assume "12" means the carriage is as 12 inch carriage. And the top row is a decimal tabulator. If I am correct, what you have is some sort of accounting typewriter. Which is pretty cool because they have so many extras.
Can you see through the glass panels on the side? If you can, it might be a Royal 10. Perhaps someone else can shed some light on this?
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- Uwe
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Re: Royal help
There is no KHM line. The KHM prefix designates a Model H with a keyset tabulator (K). The Model H was a Model 10 with a differently shaped top cover (the signature concave front of the Model 10 was discontinued around 1934).
I think the serial number needs to be double checked. It's very easy to misread a dirty or rusty number, and the reported number is problematic because it indicates a 1933 production year, which is earlier than the introduction of the keyset tabulator, which apparently was first introduced in 1934 with the KH model variant (the KHM appeared in 1936). In short, the prefix conflicts with the serial number.
I can think of a couple of scenarios to explain this, but before we all play the speculation game, it would be good to verify the number, and ideally a few photos of the machine and one of the serial number would be a real help.
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Re: Royal help
The typewriter in question does not have a key-set tabulator.
it has a 5-key decimal tabulator.
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Re: Royal help
mre12ax7 wrote:
The typewriter in question does not have a key-set tabulator.
it has a 5-key decimal tabulator.
Not sure I understand your point. We know that already since the OP specified that it had a decimal tabulator in the first post, which is why its serial number prefix seems strange (maybe just to me), and why it would be interesting to see photos of his machine and verify its serial number. Given it has a decimal tabulator the prefix generally should be KDT, and not K12.
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