Typeset Used On Envelope

I just acquired this cover, what is unique about it is that its not done by a typewriter. its is a "hand written" font with no spaces or alignments issues that would normally done by a typewriter? Cover dated Feb 10, 1949

Any ideas on the machine used to create this?

Trodent

It's a typewriter, just one with an unusual font.

Trodent, that is a beautiful cover, and not just because of the font used!
Back in the era that we used typewriters they were available with different fonts. The above is one example - they also came in cursive.

Peter

I must be too young to realize that type writers had cursive fonts back in 1940's

I just did some quick searches and it looks like a "cursive" font. But most of the webpages are using type writers from the 50's, 60's and 70's. But this was used in 1949, So I guess this Parsons Drug Store must of had the first one.

found another cover, first day of issue and first day Newfoundland joins confederation, with a Canadian stamp.



And a "LAST DAY COVER"



Trodent

My wife typed technical papers for professors at the Indiana University School of Business [now called Kelly School of Business} in the 1970's. The typewriter of choice was the IBM Selectric which had multiple interchangeable type face ball elements. They had a box of several dozen different fonts and character sets some for other languages. One grad student back in the day did some very impressive art works using combinations of these elements.

Any other examples of their philatelic use out there?

I think that the Olivetti Studio 42 (designed in 1935) was one of the first typewriters that supported cursive fonts.
Don