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Re: Quint. do Noval 1919: a question of handwriting

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djewesbury wrote:They were already planning for the Millennium Bug. Those Victorians eh?
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Cemetery & Parks Committee?
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djewesbury wrote:
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djewesbury wrote:They were already planning for the Millennium Bug. Those Victorians eh?
I just calls 'em likes I sees 'em. :wink:
Cemetery & Parks Committee?
Could be, yes. Perhaps also organizational meeting?
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Quint. do Noval 1919: a question of handwriting

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This time the handwriting is mine. The third word. I have no idea. Dark, treacly.. Conterish?? Clear rim, some reddishness.
It was a G10YO.
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Re: Quint. do Noval 1919: a question of handwriting

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That’s not a TN sheet from my software. Heresy!
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It's one produced by Graham's / Fell's. In fact rather old. I was just refreshing my memory as I wrote a talk for my introductory tasting tomorrow.
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Dark, treacly, coutrérish. A rim. Poivre radish.

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No.
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Colheiterish

Only guessing based on the context of tasting a wood aged port
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Couterish; Clearly you felt it was dark, treacly, and useful for defending your elbows when being attacked by sword or pike.
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None of the above. But thanks to JWEW who was the only person making a serious suggestion!
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Please help with another Christie’s annotation, this one from the auction on 4th July 1974.
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Very rare parcel?
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DRT wrote:Very rare parcel?
+1. Not completely sure about parcel, but seems likely and viable.
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DRT wrote:Very rare parcel?
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Please kind sirs, what was the price of the last of these lots? £24? £29?
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I would say 29 as the bottom line doesn't extend to the right past the vertical part as the other examples do. But the "2" is very different in the bottom example than the top ones. So I would assume these were written in by different people. As such it could be a 24. Though it appears the top was meant to touch but the ink is very light and the vertical part is very long, something not usually done when writing 4.

So I would still stick with it being a "29"
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Very ambiguous. I read it naturally as 24, but agree that on analysis 29 is more likely; it does appear to be a different had to the preceding examples, are there any following examples in the same hand to compare?
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Andy Velebil wrote:I would say 29 as the bottom line doesn't extend to the right past the vertical part as the other examples do. But the "2" is very different in the bottom example than the top ones. So I would assume these were written in by different people. As such it could be a 24. Though it appears the top was meant to touch but the ink is very light and the vertical part is very long, something not usually done when writing 4.

So I would still stick with it being a "29"
Agreed.

Also, the vertical stroke is at an angle which is more common in a 9 than in a 4.
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In the following list of shipper names, the fifth begins “Mart”.
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Do you agree that the word is written “ Martniez’ ”?
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jdaw1 wrote:In the following list of shipper names, the fifth begins “Mart”.
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Do you agree that the word is written “ Martniez’ ”?
I can see either " Martniez' " or " Martuiez' ".
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I would say it is Martinez with a clumsy effort for an 'n', and the dot over the 'i' very poorly positioned.
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I agree: Martinez with the dot poorly positioned.
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Could be Martinez or Martniez, no other examples of "i" usage for dot offset distance comparison; I would assume Martinez.
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Do you agree that the word is written “ Martniez’ ”?
Lysdexia, I suspect..
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uncle tom wrote:
Do you agree that the word is written “ Martniez’ ”?
Lysdexia, I suspect..
I was thinking maybe Portdexia??
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