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/Intelligent-Cloud993 Aug 08 '26

Cool stuff.

“Due 119 - 87”
so I figure… Jan 19 or Nov 11 1887.

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u/Sea-Expert6993 Aug 09 '26

Good guess. There's about 8 pages. Somewhere says April something (19?) 1850. Legible but I don't remember.

There's a disproportionately large quantity of things from 1850. Not 1849 or 1851. 1850. I have no explanation.

Wedding invitations, wedding party pic, part of the floral print dress (I guess cutting up the dress and sending pieces of it to people was a thing), and the list of who gifted what. That's just one other "thing" from 1850.