Good finds! Those two are remarkably scarce in Spain. I can´t fathom why there are no QDL´s here, or at least not as many as in the USA where they seem to be really common. There are other Royal models around here, but for some reason, not the classic QDL.

As for the Montana... The brand is a bit confusing, because it´s a typewriter made by SIM, who took the Hermes Baby design and then marketed it as Montana. 3 different brands in 1! SIMs, Montanas or any other brand or model by that manufacturer is rare as well in Spain. I´ve seen some SIMs which look a bit like a Klein Conti, but no Montanas at all.

Wow. You´ve found a little oddity!
Compared to the Montana, what differences can you find? It´s a bit hard to compare those, because Hebrew typewriters work the other way round, but at least the main features can still be compared.

I have an Olympia SM-9 that is 11 cpi.  It's nice to have something in the middle.

Yes,10 and 12 CPI are the most common sizes, but you can find wildly diferent pitches. I´d say 10 is the most common by far, and 11... I should check. TBH, this is something I´ve never paid the attention it deserves because at first I was totally lost with sizes and typefaces and Pica and Elite and Congress (note the mess) and whatnot, mixing all of them and confusing myself even further.

There´s a nice thread here about that: Sizes

Besides, there´s another thread which has great potential: Typefaces and languages

Fonts and sizes, and if you throw every typewriter´s particularities into the mix you have... a really big mix. No witch has a caludron big enough for sooo many interesting things. This weekend I´ll be on holiday, but next week I´ll look for any potential 11 CPI typewriter at home, or at least something out of the 10 -12 realm.


 

10 and 12-pitch was the most common on American typewriters, but 11-pitch can be found on many European machines.