An 1886 postcard from Thomas H. Chubb

[quashnet]

I studied calligraphy as an undergraduate at Rhode Island School of Design, and am still quite good at it. I sign my paintings in capital letters that are sufficiently precise that people sometimes think I used an ink stamp.

Paul H. Young's cursive handwriting was a beautiful, running script, quite different in character from the "spiky" inkwork on his rods. For several years, I thought that those very different styles of writing were generated by two different people in the PHY shop.

[bobk]

You may be right regarding someone else signing the rods particularly if as you state, he had beautiful cursive. I am sure his printing would have been similar.

I will now date myself because I learned cursive from the Nun's who taught us using the Palmer Method.

[quashnet]

You may be right regarding someone else signing the rods particularly if as you state, he had beautiful cursive. I am sure his printing would have been similar.

I am 100% certain that Young's printed rod inking and his cursive letter writing were both done by Paul Young. FWIW, I think Young's inked lettering on the rods is beautiful in its way (somewhat like Japanese calligraphy), although no one is obligated to agree with me.

I did not have to run the gauntlet with nuns, but in my very small school nearly sixty years ago, my mother was the English teacher. I therefore learned good grammar, spelling, and cursive handwriting in self-defense.