What colour was Ian Fleming's typewriter?

After finishing the first draft of Casino Royale, Ian Fleming rewarded himself with a Royal Quiet Deluxe Portable gold-plated typewriter. Fleming bought the gold-plated version from a New York dealer in 1952 as a trophy and wrote to his friend Ivar Bryce in New York asking him to bring the typewriter over on his next trip to England.

The Royal Typewriter Company, a manufacturer of typewriters headquartered in New York City, introduced the Quiet Deluxe portable typewriter in 1941 and the model became very popular. In 1947 Royal produced, in limited quantity, a gold-plated version of the Quiet Deluxe model. The golden version is nowadays hard to find.

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fdeisner

Unless the color of the typewriter has been changed from the color it was when Ian Fleming owned it or the typewriter has been destroyed the question should have been "What color is Ian Fleming's typewriter?" even though Ian Fleming is no longer with us.

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Rob Farr, Man with the Golden Gun, also! 😊👍 I got it wrong, thinking it was a trick question! 😢

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Christopher J Voce

The Corgi DB5 was gold but that was because the makers thought it looked unfinished so they painted it gold. I think it remains the biggest selling die cast model car of all time.