Typewriter Bar-Lock Royal 10 (1909)

This is a very beautiful Royal Bar-Lock 10, from 1909 or 1910.

“Bar-Lock” typewriters were originally invented in US by Charles Spiro, a great typewriter pioneer.

It’s a typewriter quite particular with many differences from the nowadays typewriters.

The “Bar-lock” name derive from this system of alignment of the typing bars, with a row of vertical pins in front of the roller. When you type a character, the bar is blocked by a series of small pins which prevent it from oscillating and distorting the writing.

It has 88 buttons, and there are two sets of letters, with the universal QWERTY system, both uppercase and lowercase, with different colours. The keyboards were commonly made with black and white diversification of keyboards for lowercase and uppercase letters.

Here there is a video about it