Royal Quiet Deluxe – c1940-1946

A Royal Quiet Deluxe from around 1946.

The Royal Quiet Deluxe pictured here is listed for $129 dollars and listed as “works great”. However, in looking over the typewriter, there are issues with the rollers, platen and other rubber parts that have harden up and starting to crack. Those should be replaced. The typewriter needs a better cleaning. The slugs could use a decent cleaning as well.
I’d rate this as fair and a more realistic price for this typewriter would be in the $30 dollar range as it will take at least a couple of hundred to get into the great or better category.

The Royal Quiet Deluxe was a portable typewriter made by the Royal Typewriter Company from 1939 until 1959 with a production gap during WWII. The Quiet Deluxe appears to have been a refinement of the earlier Standard and DeLuxe models, combined to create this better model. The first-generation Quiet Deluxe featured a Magic Margin — a way to set the margin stop points by pushing a left or right button and sliding the carriage.
This series was Royal’s most popular models.

It was the typewriter of choice for Ernest Hemingway. Many plays, books and movies were written on the Royal Quite Deluxe Portable. Ian Fleming comes to mind writing many of his books and short stories.