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| Sarah Haddock, 1764, Haverhill, MA |
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF Mrs
SARAH WIFE OF Mr
CHARLS HADDOCK
WHO DIED SEPTEM
THE 11th 1764 IN
THE 34th YEAR
OF HER AGE
Here is another carver who crosses his capital Is. This looks like the work of Joseph Marble, but is cruder than the example identified in the Farber Collection.
2 comments:
> Here is another carver who crosses his capital Is.
Very interesting. I'll have to check some typography resources to see if I can learn anything about this letterform.
—RJO
Aha, it does exist in Unicode as "latin capital i with stroke":
Ɨ
& # 4 0 7 ;
That doesn't tell us anything about its historical or typographic significance, but it's a start.
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