Crossed Letter

[Larry Barrieau]

Four years ago I was new to fountain pens and so I wrote this brief description of the "Iceman Otzi" I'd seen his preserved remains in a museum in the Italian Alps and because it was a fascinating piece of history, and because I wanted to play with my pens, I wrote it like this. Tonight I googled this kind of writing and found out that I didn't invent it. It even has a name - "crossed letter"/ It was used in the U.S. and Canada a couple of hundred years ago to save on postage and paper.
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On the back of this crossed letter, I typed the same story. Thought you might enjoy it. The sketches are of his copper axe and his flint knife.

 

 

Click on the link in my signature below and go to the Otzi album. (I tried to post the pictures here but I guess I reached my quota.)

Edited February 24, 2018 by Larry Barrieau

[Studio97]

Four years ago I was new to fountain pens and so I wrote this brief description of the "Iceman Otzi" I'd seen his preserved remains in a museum in the Italian Alps and because it was a fascinating piece of history, and because I wanted to play with my pens, I wrote it like this. Tonight I googled this kind of writing and found out that I didn't invent it. It even has a name - "crossed letter"/ It was used in the U.S. and Canada a couple of hundred years ago to save on postage and paper.

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On the back of this crossed letter, I typed the same story. Thought you might enjoy it. The sketches are of his copper axe and his flint knife.

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the link in my signature below and go to the Otzi album. (I tried to post the pictures here but I guess I reached my quota.)

What signature? Not showing.

[Larry Barrieau]

Sorry. The fpnlcb,shutterfly.com/pictures link at the bottom of the page

[Bo Bo Olson]

Interesting....thanks. I can perhaps throw that into my western....when the character in frontier Missouri writes back east.

 

Onion skin was once used for airmail, to save money.

Edited February 25, 2018 by Bo Bo Olson

[Corona688]

Click on the link in my signature below and go to the Otzi album.

"The javascript for this page failed to load correctly."

 

Try hosting your pictures on imgur. It gives you a real URL for your images which you can share without fear.

 

Meanwhile there's another to be seen on crossed letter.

Edited February 25, 2018 by Corona688

[Larry Barrieau]

I just clicked on it and it brought me to the site. I don't know what javascript is nor why it's acting up. I went to Imgur and the two highlighted words were "viral" and "popular", two things I don't care about. I just want to share pen stuff with pen people. I don't know computer talk and I haven't the time to learn. I'm lucky I can even get this up. Thanks for trying to help.

[Corona688]

Your link eventually started working again in any case though you don't need to deal with Imgur's gallery at all to host images there.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I use the second line in Imgur after loading the picture to transfer here...through the little green box above.....I don't waste my time looking at other stuff, using it only to post pictures here

[ReadyFireAim]

... found out that I didn't invent it.

It loaded fine for me.

 

Your crossed letter is easier to read than the other one I saw because of the 2 colors.

Strange thing about the other ones though...They were almost double spaced???

Edited February 26, 2018 by Nail-Bender