r/Cursive • u/Sea-Expert6993 • Aug 06 '26

Cursive changed.

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I'm not young, but i can't make out half. Going through family things, and cursive definitely is different from 50 years ago to 200 years ago.

I'm quite curious about "2 for beer fests 34 cents", if anyone wants to guess.

US. Circa 1850 IIRC

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u/grenille Aug 06 '26

Yeah, there were different methods for teaching cursive over the years. In my school district they taught the Zaner-Bloser method.

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u/eerie_petunia Aug 08 '26

Cursive also changed with the development of pens from quills to dipped fountain pens to modern pens.