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Kurrent is an old form of German language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift or Alte Deutsche Schrift ("old German script").'

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Erkennung einer alten Handschrift

Seite 1: So schön, sang in der Schäfer Welt der redliche Ei= ron, als Luna durch die Sternen irrte, die Nymphen hörten den Ge= sang, der durch den Wald bis zum Olimpus drang. Voll Zuversicht daß fromm …
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Postcard transcription, german, old handwriting

Erster Versuch - zur Weiterbearbeitung als community wiki. Wallsee am 1(?)/8 Liebe Freunde! Betrefs euhrem kommen kann ich euch mitteilen daß wir di(e)ser Woche [Wochen ?] einen Tote …
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troublesome Gothic script word in Bible inscription

Inhaltlich passen würde "schicken", allerdings scheint das nur schwer mit dem Kurrent-Text in Einklang zu bringen sein. … Update: Hier einige Beispiele zur Schreibung von "sch" (aus dem Text in Deciphering of difficult Kurrent (?) …
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Trying to understand these old German records from 1897 for a genealogy project

realized that the handwriting of the civil registrar has a special feature: Names of persons and localities are written in a sort of cursive script, the rest of the text is written in the traditional German Kurrent
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What is this symbol for a small weight?

I support guidot's interpretation that the symbol stands for "Pfennig" as you can see here: Concerning your guess "to me it looks like 10 ch Hefe" see here: In der Edition von handschriftlichen Ori …
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