Brian Lamprill - new set

 

A set of images of Brian Lamprill posing for Lon of NY

 with a hairy chest has been added to the gallery

see Brian Lamprill's index page

Gym Instructor added to archive

Gym Instructor

 I have added this well-known series to the Archive. 

It's a small group (6 images) and was intended to be a quick, simple addition but turned out to be anything but! It contains some great Royale spanking and shorts images and some new discoveries.

Read Gym Instructor

Brian Lamprill solo poses

B7

I have completed posting a set of Brian Lamprill solo poses, 

mainly in a revealing posing pouch, at the Royale Studio Gallery

Sources of Royale Imagery (updated Jan 2024)

Royale Studio - Soldier-Sailor (FJSS)

 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.

1. 

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)

 2.

 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.

3.

 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).

4.

 Bonham's Sale Catalogue for the British Photography Collection (2021) has 12 sample images

5.

The Colville Exhibition (2016) has 16 images in colour

6.

  Come presently has 1 unique, coloured image of Peter George 

(possibly related to the Colville collection)

7.

'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.

8. 

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.

9.

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.

10. 

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. 

11.

Antosgay blog has a similar selection

12.

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)

13.

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).

14.

There's a small but interesting collection at Vintage Muscle Men, several are actually from 'Guys in Uniform', others unrelated but worth seeing.

15.

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.

16.

A sale of 30 Royale/Hussar photos at Swann Galleries

Sources of Information about Royale and Clavering

101. 

'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.