Old Typewriters

Well, this has nothing to do with shaving. I came across an old post on 'Ordinary find' about a 1953 Royal Quiet Deluxe Portable typewriter, with a mention of how it's fun to think that Ian Fleming's Casino Royale or Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye could have been written on one like it.
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I liked that thought, and it reminded me of the Hermes portable that I sold about a year ago, like this one:
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I no longer write anything requiring a typewriter, and I don't collect them, but for some reason I really like the old ones. They really are marvels of engineering for their time.