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Saturday 7 November 2009

Scritch, Scratch!

I can remember being at Primary School and being taught to write with a dip pen. The nib would be dipped into the inkwell and then moved across the paper. Scritch, scratch it went. Oh, those were the days, weren't they.

You can imagine my pleasure when I noticed a hand with a pen on the front of a gravestone recently. A writer's grave, I thought, but I was wrong. It marked the grave of a lawyer. It was still a very fine example of graveyard symbolism. Alfrey Percy Ames was his name - born 1872 and died 1953.

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7 comments:

  1. dustbunny87 November 2009 at 20:19

    Wonderful find!Strange to think that writing by hand seems to be going by the wayside after so long.

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  2. Cloudia8 November 2009 at 04:54

    1953?! Yes! Great find!


    Aloha, Friend


    Comfort Spiral

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  3. CathM8 November 2009 at 17:04

    How kewl... what a find :)

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  4. Laurie13 November 2009 at 21:12

    Hi dustbunny. Handwriting - is it just me or has typing caused us to lose the ability to write properly?

    1953, Cloudia? Strange because the headstone looks so old . . .

    Glad you like it, Cath.

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  5. Sharon Wagner4 December 2009 at 19:51

    Maybe I should have a hand and a paint brush on mine. But I hope I don't need one for a long time!

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  6. Laurie5 December 2009 at 03:33

    Hi Sharon, That sounds a good idea. I haven't worked out what I would like yet but, as you say, not for a long time!
    Laurie

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  7. Nishant11 February 2010 at 21:19

    Great find!

    Work From Home

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