@chrisaldrich Cool! (I had a 1949? Royal Portable for years! Wrote many, many pages on it.)

@the If it looked like this one it was probably either a 1949 or 1950 and either a QDL as pictured or possibly an Arrow (if it didn't have tab functionality). I suspect that the all light gray/chrome model was the same one that Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera had for much of their work and which Carl Mydans photographed them with in 1958.

@the Oops! I wasn't watching the context and presumed you had made your comment on this post from a few days back which pictured an earlier 1948 Royal portable and it's younger brother, a 1949 Quiet De Luxe designed by Henry Dreyfuss. It was the later 1949 version in light gray with chrome which I referenced with respect to Nabokov.

@chrisaldrich typewriters used to really stress me out. I had a kind of "PTSD" from typing class, where I was so bad at it. But because of that pressure, I can touch type without looking at the keyboard, and my career has benefitted from that. I think I would like to type on a typewriter. This is random, but I found this interesting: www.thenewsminute.com/telangana...

@chrisaldrich I’m starting to wonder what happened to it. I don’t have any pictures of it. (Once I got my Mac & Imagewriter, the faithful Royal got pushed into a cupboard.)

@the I took me a trip across country and some digging to find my old Smith-Corona Clipper at my parents' house. I'm glad they kept it. Hopefully yours will pop up soon.