Internal markings question

ithacaartist · 08-12-2013, 08:13 AM

Glenn,

That last one looks more like a "b" to me. I'm sure you mean cursive, not Gothic. Cursive = running, as in running together, as we learned around 3rd or 4th grade to write, not print. Gothic, or Blackletter script is the old style of German font. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter

My notion is that the internal stampings like these are all over the board as far as font/characters and locations. I've read here that there's no particular documentation of what means what, since they are ersatz indicators of steps in the machining and assembly process applied by individual workers or sub-inspectors?

08-12-2013, 08:13 AM	#2
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,410 Thanks: 7,585 Thanked 2,660 Times in 1,399 Posts	Glenn, That last one looks more like a "b" to me. I'm sure you mean cursive, not Gothic. Cursive = running, as in running together, as we learned around 3rd or 4th grade to write, not print. Gothic, or Blackletter script is the old style of German font. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter My notion is that the internal stampings like these are all over the board as far as font/characters and locations. I've read here that there's no particular documentation of what means what, since they are ersatz indicators of steps in the machining and assembly process applied by individual workers or sub-inspectors? __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

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