yesterdaysprint:The Public Advertiser, London, June 27, 1761STOLENFrom Mr. James Taylor, in Howard’s
yesterdaysprint:The Public Advertiser, London, June 27, 1761STOLENFrom Mr. James Taylor, in Howard’s Rope-Walk, near the Hermitage, A Silver gadroon’d Salt, Weight about 2 oz. also a Pepper Box, both marked with the Letters I.T.S and the Workman’s Mark T.B.If offered to be pawned or sold, please to stop them and the Party, and give Notice as above, and you shall have all reasonable Satisfaction.Google tells me that a pepper-box is a type of gun, and gadrooning is a decorative motif, so I’m going to go on a limb here and assume that this man is missing two guns and not a set of salt and pepper shakers like I originally assumed.That’s just what I’ve noticed though, I’m not 100% sure of when an s should be a long s or a short s (if I was going to try and write something as if it were 1750, I wouldn’t know which to use!), I’m sure somebody knows some rules of thumb???It’s usually simple. If it’s at the end of the word: short s. Otherwise, long s.However, I do notice that “Satisfaction” forms an exception to this, but Wikipedia explains:The long s is often confused with the minuscule f, sometimes even having an f-like nub at its middle, but on the left side only, in various Roman typefaces and in blackletter. There was no nub in its italic typeform, which gave the stroke a descender that curled to the left and which is not possible without kerning in the other typeforms mentioned. For this reason, the short s was also normally used in combination with f: for example, in “ſatisfaction”.Also, given the weight of 2 oz., I’m pretty sure these actually are silver-decorated salt and pepper boxes. Even the contents would be pretty expensive back then!I definitely could be wrong, though. It’s just a guess. -- source link
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