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Tuesday, 27 August 2013

To paint or not to paint...




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10 comments:

  1. Great paint job and a nice Seiko diver too. 6309, I think, but I'm not well versed in Seiko models.

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    1. Thank you.

      Yes - 6309 - beautifully simple and simply beautiful :)

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  2. Nice paint! I may be a little biased, however, by the fact that green and gold are the team colors of the university where I work. Go Blazers! http://www.uabsports.com

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    1. Thank you! Technically it is a definite yellow but I'm sure it would look very nice in that Blazers' gold.

      Also it crossed my mind - since this typewriter was made in Holland - to put some certain green leaf ;) stickers on both sides... :D

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  3. Those are also the colors of John Deere tractors. Not long ago on eBay there was a "John Deere" repainted Smith-Corona -- green and yellow, with the Deere logo. I think no one wanted it! But your Royalite is beautiful.

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    1. Thank you. I wasn't aware of the John Deere connection :)

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  4. Years ago I had a very strange typewriter dream that involved a whole array of typewriters painted in John Deere colours, as Mr Polt pointed out these represent. A bit of a dream come true for me I suppose, haha!

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    1. If only it was not a horror dream... :) Ha! Now I am a sort of tractor specialist - whenever I see one in these colours in an American movie I knowingly point at it and say: "That's a John Deere!". Things you learn on Typosphere...

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    2. All typewriter dreams are nightmares because you never end up with a single one you saw in the dream. XD

      ...I think your comment here is one of my favourites of all typosphere time. I just love it. Have fun Deerespotting. ;)

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  5. Definite improvement on the royalite's look. Rather than a $20machine, it now looks like a$100 machine

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