That is incredibly impressive that you found this! Superscripts were very common in sign painting and I guess handwriting, but they were a huge pain and rarely used in typesetting.
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(by rarely, I mean that fonts of type didn't typically include superscripts, so it would be a specialized and irritating thing to include them in hand setting)
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OH MY GOD. I think I found it. Date checks out. Note the curved apostrophe consistent with the legend on the key on the above typewriter, and with the presence of two curved quotation marks, too. Best news: Public domain.pic.twitter.com/gGGeNQ96FQ
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Fantastic find! I don't see the curly quotes, though. What am I missing?
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They are not in this letter. I’m saying that the curliness of the single quote is consistent with the curly double quotes on the same typewriter.
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I did find other letters from the same model (?) with curly double quotes, too!pic.twitter.com/g7UzVE1NUg
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*And* I found this amazing early letter written on a Sholes & Glidden. All high-res scans in public domain. What a good day!pic.twitter.com/UbxvSZRvSq
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…aaaaaand randomly another example of “r.” in an obscure Swiss magazine.pic.twitter.com/cz9Xj47End
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And the matched quotes. You know what else I hadn't noticed? It's got a dedicated dollar sign, but it's still doubling up on 1/l and 0/O. It's an odd moment in character choices.
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I can sort of see that, though. If you just add shifting to an existing layout, it makes it easier to add symbols and stuff – but 0 and 1 are still out of reach unless you rearrange things.
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Replying to @mwichary @WideSpacer and
It makes some sense. A constructed dollar sign is 3 strokes.
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