Royale Studio 01d - Sailors Fighting in the Rigging

Hussar Studio - Sailors Wrestling in the Rigging

I recently stumbled across this image of two sailors in very tight shorts grappling in the ship's rigging. It's attributed to Hussar Studio which was a subsidiary of Royale Studio*. It's a typical Royale image, with suggestive juxtapositiong of legs and crotches, invisible groping, skimpy tight shorts and a great bottom shot. I haven't seen their grappling and rigging themes combined before, this set is completely new to me. 

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 I found this new image on an auction site which is why it's not a proper, frontal copy, just a snap intended to promote the sale. Annoyingly, it's quite good quality otherwise! 

It's from a 1960's vintage magazine, Body Beautiful 22

If you have a copy and are willing to send in a better image I'd be very glad to hear from you (e-mail me via my 'Contact Me' page). I suspect from the magazine contents list (which was also provided by the seller) that there may be more Royale images inside. 

I don't know who the cute cover model is, I think he's a Troy Saxon man, not Royale.

Hussar - Brian Melloy measures Rick Wayne (in 'Tape Measure')

It's almost impossible to identify who the models are in the top image, but I fancy the man standing on the ground might be Rick Wayne (above, right), who was a top notch body-builder and often posed solo for Royale, sometimes nude. He appears, dressed exactly the same, in the Hussar 'storyette' called 'Tape Measure' (sample illustration above). 

This series is about two musclehunks squabbling in mildly erotic fashion over who is the bigger man. His partner in that series is Brian Melloy who you can see has pretty big shoulders - just like the man standing in the rigging. It's possible that the newly-unearthed, top image is the same models, maybe related to the same series, although 'Tape Measure' doesn't feature a rigging prop in any of the pictures I have seen. 

'Tape Measure' will be posted at mitchmen blog later in this series.

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*I don't know if there was any particular rationale behind the Hussar-Royale differentiation, the 'storyettes' seem similar in content and the models are much the same. As you can see above, Hussar was formerly Dolphin Studio and presumably acquired by Royale. I don't know if  the photographer was acquired too or just the brand and business (mailing lists were gold dust in that era). 

I included a Hussar set in the original Royale postings at mitchmen in 2013:- Royale 18 'The PT Class' which is officially known as 'Jim Nasium', I believe, see reference above. 

 The mitchmen 'Royale Studio' Series continues with Royale Studio 02 - 'Navy Romeo'

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Royale 1 - Sailors Flogged in the Rigging

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