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The mitchmen Royale Studio Open Archive aims to become a major consolidator of available images, but other sources are listed below. There's also a separate section listing sources with biographical information about Clavering.
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A major collection was published in the British Photographers Yahoo! Group around 2009-10 but was completely lost when Yahoo! Groups closed. There is information about the origins of the group in the milism article (ref 2, below)
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An article at milism (2002-2007) has 7 Royale images plus 1 from Guys in Uniform. Also a lot of information about Royale and the British Photographers Collection.
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Jock Spank (2010) has a good collection of 66 of images from the British Photographers collection (as published at MM_Spanking Group) tagged as 'Royale-Studios' also a further 50 tagged as Men-In-Uniform Studio which includes some Royale but are mostly 'Guys In Uniform' images (and some which are neither).
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Bonham's Sale Catalogue for the British Photography Collection (2021) has 12 sample images
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The Colville Exhibition (2016) has 16 images in colour
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Come presently has 1 unique, coloured image of Peter George
(possibly related to the Colville collection)
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'p-collection' is my name for a group of photos circulating on the web with the filename format p followed by a 3 digit number e.g. p485. These are all obviously copies of physical photographs complete with white edges, edge shadows are often visible. They seem to pop up randomly so I can't point you to a source, if anyone can help please let me know.
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There's a large collection at mitchmen blog which can be located using the label 'GIU/Royale' in the sidebar. It will bring up Guys In Uniform too. Eventually these will all be replicated at this blog.
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There's an enormous collection of vintage beefcake mags at TimInVermont which can be searched for Royale/Dolphin/Hussar imagery. It's not free and the image quality is sometimes so-so but there are rarities to be found. A useful option if you're keen to delve and don't want to wait for me to publish here.
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Uniforms and Stereotypes blog has a good selection (around 165) images, many of them Royale, but mixed up with other British Studios of the era like Scott (who he claims is a pseudonym for Basil Clavering) and 'Guys in Uniform' too. He says Clavering relocated to a flat in Portobello at some point and bought uniforms at the market there but I think this is a reference to the Guys in Uniform 'reincarnation' of the Royale ethos in the late 1970's.
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Antosgay blog has a similar selection
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Sailor Al's Sailor-Uniform blog has recently (Jan 2023) started posting again with Royale images, he has a set of Navy Romeo (Part 2)
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A number of photos have come down to us from the CosmoLeather Collection, a now-defunct Dutch site/magazine. These are often better quality than the more common thumbnail cuts, but all have 2 prominent, elaborate logos on them. You'll find these scattered throughout this Archive. Many of their water-marked images can also be found in the 'Tim in Vermont' Royale Collection (Source 9).
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There's a small but interesting collection at Vintage Muscle Men, several are actually from 'Guys in Uniform', others unrelated but worth seeing.
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Homodesiribus has 39 posts with (mostly) Royale images, with some 'Guys in Uniform' mixed in and a few doubtfuls. Also 1 post labelled 'Hussar' which covers the Colville colour collection.
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A sale of 30 Royale/Hussar photos at Swann Galleries
Sources of Information about Royale and Clavering
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'Physique' The Life of John S Barrington by Rupert Smith (Serpent's Tail 1997) contains several refences to Barrington and Clavering's acquaintanceship and collaboration.
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I welcome information from visitors about other useful resources.
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