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At the Jackie Robinson Museum. According to the exhibit, it was used by him to write a column for the New York Post and later the New York Amsterdam News.
Jackie Robinson used a first iteration version of Henry Dreyfuss' Royal Quiet De Luxe. The museum dates it as 1949.