“May I C-U-Home This Eve?” acquaintance card Photo(s) by Alan Mays. Imported from Flickr on May 7, 2022. Artwork published in circa 1890. Source: www.flickr.com Uploaded to Flickr by Alan Mays and tagged with “ancient”. License: All Rights Reserved. May I C-U-Home this Eve? Yours truly, James Ely. Please answer. This is an acquaintance card dating to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. For other cards with the same illustration and border, see Your Coral Lips Were Made to Kiss, I Stoutly will Maintain, Your Beau I Wish to Be, This Card I Therefore Send, and I Learned the Verb “Love” at School. For even more cards, see my Acquaintance Cards album. The main typeface is the unshaded variant of Ancient (Johnson, c. 1870?), shown by Farmer, Little & Co. in 1878. The script used for “James Ely” could be Spencerian Script (MS&J, 1878) or similar. Typefaces Formats Ephemera (985) Topics Other (220) Tagged withacquaintance cards (5)1890s (42)rebus (10)two-color (794)red and black (959)borders and rules (875)lettering (509)uncertain typeface ID (177) Artwork location United States (7956) In Sets Thumbnail Questions (Florian Hardwig) (76) Colossal Combinations (Jay Mellor) (2071) 3 Comments on ““May I C-U-Home This Eve?” acquaintance card” Jay Mellor says: May 8th, 2022 10:23 pm I have just found this THP thread for Ancient through this: forums.typeheritage.com/top… Florian Hardwig says: May 9th, 2022 5:52 am Yes, I saw that, but that thread doesn’t have a lot of info. I couldn’t find the digital version mentioned by Robert. Florian Hardwig says: May 9th, 2022 8:03 am Scratch that: it’s called Ancient Text and was released by Type Revivals in the 1990s. One can find copies online, but without licensing terms. I’d consider it abandonwar. Post a comment Name Email – will not be published Website Your response Submit Comment More in Other Nightingale2020Nathan RileyGreen ChameleonContributed by Nikolas Wrobel 2018 greeting card2018Céline KriebsContributed by Céline Star Wars Christmas cards (1977)1977Contributed by Florian Hardwig Sponsor More in Ephemera Manezh association membership cards2021Tuman studioIra KoshelevaKsenia KotlyarovskayaContributed by Alain Papazian Rosendal Castle2022Gry Strange EchwaldContributed by 205TF Lichtbild-Ausweis für die Wankbahn und die Kreuzeckbahn in Garmisch-Partenkirchenc. 1935unknownContributed by Florian Hardwig Hallow Eve Party ticket, Young Men’s Society, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Lancaster, Pa.c. 1905Pluck PrintPhoto(s) by Alan Mays on Flickr. More Fonts In Use Catalan Wines2012ToormixContributed by Stephen Coles Staff Pick “I ❤️ NY Catskills” New York State tourism posters (1970s–90s)c. 1979Milton GlaserContributed by Garrison Martin Staff Pick The Functions of Sleep1973unknownContributed by Jorge Iván Moreno Majul Staff Pick The New York Times Magazine, 2015 Food Issue2015The New York Times MagazineGail BichlerMatt WilleyContributed by Production Type Staff Pick Common Curiosity studio identityc. 2019Common CuriosityPaul FeltonAlex WoolleyContributed by F37® Staff Pick La gazette du parc2021R&D (Rogemond-Duc)Laure RogemondVincent DucContributed by Forgotten Shapes Staff Pick Chocolat Breitling candy tin2015Jeremia AdatteAdatte DesignContributed by Stephen Coles Staff Pick ballesterer magazine and podcast, #175, Nov. 20222022LWZManuel RaddeContributed by tobias schererbauer Staff Pick
3 Comments on ““May I C-U-Home This Eve?” acquaintance card”
I have just found this THP thread for Ancient through this: forums.typeheritage.com/top…
Yes, I saw that, but that thread doesn’t have a lot of info. I couldn’t find the digital version mentioned by Robert.
Scratch that: it’s called Ancient Text and was released by Type Revivals in the 1990s. One can find copies online, but without licensing terms. I’d consider it abandonwar.