The other night I was reading Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship (1866). In it, the author suggests thinning your iron gull ink with coffee or tea instead of water so it doesn’t go grey. I’m guessing this is so it keeps its acidity levels. I don’t usually use iron gull, but if you do have you tried this?

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H. C. Spencer, one of the many Spencers who succeeded Platt Rogers Spencer, the man who gave Spencerian calligraphy its name. (Fine engraving by J. C. Buttre.)

Image from Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship, one of many new items in @letterformarchive’s Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_writingmanuals_0088&targPic=lfa_writingmanuals_0088_004.jpg

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I'll be having a peruse through this bad boy when I get home from work. It's spiral bound and everything! 😀

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Noodling about with some #calligraphy (or #Spencerian) on the #Kindle #Scribe.

The text is from New Scientist.

Hey #handwriting and #fountainpen folks: I've been pulling exercises pages from 19th c. #Spencerian workbooks, cleaning them up and resizing them for US Letter print size.

They are pretty rough, some of the scans are bad, but usable clipped under a sheet of paper to trace. If there's interest I could run it through acrobat and make a packet of them, or post image files here. Example below:

I decided to ink up my $200 franken pen (with a 120 year old nib) against my modern $600 hand customized pilot (Motishaw Spencerian modification).

This is the end result, each in a different color ink.

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#Befruchtungsökonomie #Verschenkeaktion durch Dr. Freemo @freemo

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#standard #writing #style for #business #correspondence prior to the #widespread #adoption of the #typewriter

#Unterscheidung von #Medienwandel und #Medienwechsel: #Ähnlichkeit von #Schrift und #Druckschrift bzw. #Schreibmaschine; Das #wesentlich​es #Element der #Veränderung der #Struktur ist das #kommunikative​s #Setting #Buchdruck;