Old handwriting alphabet

Old German (Prussian) Alphabet & German Script - from Elementarbuch Der Deutschen Sprache, by Arnold Werner-Spanhood (1912)

Making sense of German historical records can be tricky because the old German Cursive Alphabet and typefaces kept changing. See why!

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Vintage cursive alphabet~Unfortunately, Children do Not Learn this in School Anymore. No Penmanship Classes in Schools. Did you ever see how Poorly they Write?

Prepare to feel ~relaxed~.

An example of our Schooner Script font In use.

A Victorian penmanship chart (ca. 1880?).

Raise your hand, Pandas who still have a notebook! (A handful of hands slowly come up.) Now, raise your hand if you write in that notebook! While we listen to the humming silence, I have to admit that in the past week, I scribbled out a single post-it note with my groceries list. The fact is obvious: typing has pretty much replaced the good, old and beautiful art of handwriting. (I am not looking at you, doctors!)