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Offline Ken Fraser

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Dickens quote in Spencerian
« on: October 23, 2014, 06:46:41 PM »
This was written with an Esterbrook 357 nib with Higgins Eternal black ink on Mondi IQ Smooth 100gsm paper.


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Re: Dickens quote in Spencerian
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2014, 07:23:02 PM »
Ken, this is exquisite. Just lovely!
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Offline Ken Fraser

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Re: Dickens quote in Spencerian
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2014, 10:03:51 AM »
Thanks, Star

I should mention that I reduced the image size so that I could get it to fit on the screen page.

Here is a section at the original written size. The x height is about 2 mm.

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Re: Dickens quote in Spencerian
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2014, 03:21:38 AM »
Very beautiful!
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Re: Dickens quote in Spencerian
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2014, 02:49:29 PM »
So elegant!

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Re: Dickens quote in Spencerian
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2014, 11:42:38 AM »
Absolutely breathtaking!!! Now *this* is worth practicing for. Thanks for sharing!
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