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Yup! That's the "per" symbol. Not one I've ever had a chance to investigate, unfortunately.
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
And here are some Hammonds with it!pic.twitter.com/Sx8aFo6nc5
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
Oh, and here’s even a transitional model. (Reminds me of the “1” key on Selectrics.)pic.twitter.com/suszLJoPFO
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
Also round in Remington’s list of available keyboards:pic.twitter.com/EQzYcCEwBF
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
Do these originate in Tironian notes? They seem like very specific abbreviations.
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Replying to @Bitterman59 @mwichary and
I don't know offhand, I'm afraid, but they look to be a little too ornate for that. I'll have a look again when I have a spare moment.
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Replying to @shadychars @Bitterman59 and
These are in any case characters frequently used in Early Modern manuscripts and prints, for Latin and other Romance languages. If the keyboard was intended for archivists, the characters are required for accurately transcribing titles, etc.
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Replying to @true_mxp @Bitterman59 and
Aha, okay. I had a sneaking suspicion that was the case. Thanks!
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A typing sample from Hammond from Scientific American in 1887: (Sadly, “reproduction” can mean so many different things.)pic.twitter.com/vOiFIsxi3c
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Replying to @mwichary @shadychars and
Looks quite similar in the Inland Printer, even though the body text is set differently, for whatever that's worth https://archive.org/details/inlandprinte318851886chic/page/522?q=%22type+wheel+and+the+outer+edges%22 …pic.twitter.com/zhthfyrwcV
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Replying to @enf @shadychars and
Oh, yeah, it looks like the article is syndicated from The Inland Printer!
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