I have this old typewriter that I'm having a really hard time trying to locate the model number on.
Its a Royal Citadelle(That's correct) typewriter. At a guess it was made somewhere between 1930-1950. It was my grandmothers who gave it to my mother before it was given to me. I think my grandmother bought it used but I can't be sure.
This was the very first machine I ever used to type with. I also typed my very first story, or tried to got to about 15 pages before I lost interest.
Decades ago I actually used this machine to make some coupons for school just to show my teacher I could do it, they were forgeries for free food from a canteen. I didn't use them but my teacher got the idea and came up with something a little less forgable. I mean really (this coupon entitles the student to free hotdog and chips from canteen) followed by his signature done on a white slip of paper. No logo and a very easy signature to trace too. They put a stamp with school logo in red on slip of paper after that.
ahh memories...
back to point.. anyone got an idea where to find a model number on this thing?
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Don't know much...
Don't know much about typewriters, but this link may be of help.
Have a delightfully devious day,
Royal typewriter
Why do you need the model number? You can take it to a shop that does manual typewriter maintenance/repair. They can find it for you.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Depending on location
Shops that still repair or even know what a typewriter is are few and far between. I have actually explained to teens and twenties that I learned to type on manual and electic typewriters and watched them give me a blank look and a "Huh???) Then they would get totally lost when I would tell them that alot of our homework assignments were printed out on Mimiograph sheets.
If you really want to see this in action, look up the NCIS episode where D.C. looses power and all the nifty high tech stuff fails when the batteries fail and Jethro Gibbs pulls out the box of non-powered equipment that they used to use before all the new-fangled stuff spoiled everyone :)
When I was much younger
I worked in a shop with a handraulic till. You depressed the buttons for the money and turned the handle. Great when we had a power cut.
BTW I learned to touch-type on an Olivetti portable and my first office job involved hand Olivetti adding machines.
I presume that you've looked on the back and the bottom for the model number? Maybe WWII was the time of development of the typewriter and, prior to this, the make was enough to identify it.
S.
Serial number
You may wish to look on the inside of the machine itself. They may have put it there on a label. Most likely on the front or back plate. I wish you luck.