“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.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use