“Will you allow me Pleasure of your sweet Acquaintance?” card
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This is an acquaintance card that dates to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
For another card that uses the same illustration and red border, see May I C U Home This Eve? (featuring Souvenir and Bowl).
Will you allow me [the] Pleasure of your sweet Acquaintance?
Miss ________
Yours Truly. Please Answer.
Franz W. Olson
The fairy-tale blackletter is Herman Ihlenburg’s Bradley from 1895. “Miss” is set in Royal Script, a formal script cut by Gustave F. Schroeder for the Central Type Foundry by 1887. The oldest typeface on this card is the other script used for the sender’s name: it’s Spencerian Script, patented by Richard Smith for MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan in 1878. “Yours Truly” and “Please Answer” is hand lettering.
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Spencerian Script is used with its alternate ornamented capitals. Part of the flourish below the O unfortunately has broken off, compare to the undamaged glyph in an 1899 ATF catalog: