Striptease

Presented on a strip of adding-machine tape on a very slippery platen. Looks like it's time to try the brake fluid trick, too. Typewriter images from shopgoodwill.com

From the keys of a Royal 1947 Quiet De Luxe

Confessions

Not time-traveling: actually from May 2012. This machine has been in hiding for a while.

• I didn't need more, dammit! at Filthy Platen

Typed on a little-seen 1947 Royal Quiet De Luxe

Appreciated

Typed on "Etta," the 1953 Royal Quiet DeLuxe

• ITAM: Deek's modest proposal
  

Unexpected

On Noodling

Production note: I was trying to emulate Joe Van Cleve's color-wash technique, but had little luck getting the wax to transfer to the page. My color wash of diluted fountain pen ink made the page a lovely mushy blue, but no letters. So, I fell back on the method demonstrated by his grandson and just scanned the wax paper outright, boosting the contrast in Gimp.

At Last

Update: for those having trouble getting a clear impression (*cough* Speegle *cough), here are some detail photos of the paper used for this typecast. I tweaked the "levels" on the above pic to boost the contrast a bit, though I'm not sure that was necessary, since you can see the lettering on the other side bleeding through.