“May I C-U-Home This Eve?” acquaintance card
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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.
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.