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Fruitless Exercise In Deciphering Handwriting

 
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Posted 02/04/2017   6:00 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add PostmasterGS to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I give up!

I bought this postcard for the machine cancel, and I normally try to translate all my postcards before I mount them. This one... nope. I swear it's some bizarre cross of German and Morse!





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Posted 02/04/2017   6:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Wow. Postmaster, can you make out the date it was sent?


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Posted 02/04/2017   6:11 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PostmasterGS to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
31 December 1925 from Charlottenburg to Hettstedt.
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Edited by PostmasterGS - 02/04/2017 6:11 pm
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Posted 02/04/2017   6:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add perf12 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi! Well the lower case letters are quiet small to say the least. There is a good web site on Sutterlin script > suetterlinschrift.de translation is possible but some work involved...
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Posted 02/04/2017   6:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Freibergs to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Reminiscent of a postcard I had written in Hebrew script but Yiddish language.
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Posted 02/04/2017   7:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Good Luck, Postmaster.
A similar code type, and solved.
https://goscf.com/t/50853

Responder is also looking for encrypted examples, to solve.
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Posted 02/04/2017   9:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PostmasterGS to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't think it's code. It appears to be normal German, it's just that the author wrote really small, and as the ink bled into the fibers, the letters became blobs.
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Posted 02/04/2017   11:06 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bookbndrbob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Perhaps SCF member florian can help. He is very good with suetterlin script.
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Posted 02/05/2017   03:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tommtomm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well it's no code at all, but extremely hard to read - even for me.
The first words are "und herzlichen Dank für ..." (and heartfelt thanks for ...).

Somehow most links between the letters and many lines inside are missing.
Never seen something like that before.

I'll have a longer try tomorrow.




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