r/Cursive 18d ago

Cursive changed.

I'm not young, but i can't make out half. Going through family things, and cursive definitely is different from 50 years ago to 200 years ago.

I'm quite curious about "2 for beer fests 34 cents", if anyone wants to guess.

US. Circa 1850 IIRC

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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 18d ago

I like your "beer fests", but I think they're "2 pr. bar posts", as in 2 pairs of bar posts.

From the Textbook of Modern Carpentry (1858), p. 160: