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Subject:
hand-written lower-case r-looking florish that is in front of and joins the first letter of given and surnames?
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Lee Anne Center <[log in to unmask]>
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Lee Anne Center <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 5 Dec 2004 11:35:21 -0500
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Maybe a signature I saw was just a unique fashion statement, but maybe not.

Has anyone studied handwriting enough to know where a person in the 1700s
and 1800s might be from if he put a hand-written lower-case r-looking
florish in front of his given and surname? The lower-case r joins the first
letter.

This man was said to have immigrated from Germany. Was signing like that
common in Germany or European countries in the late 1700s to mid-1800s?

Lee Anne

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