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8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Spencerian Script site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Spencerian Script, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Spencerian Script, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
Spencerian Script is a script style that flourished in the United States from 1850 to 1895. Interview with Michael & Deb Sull of Spencerian.com
Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, was impressed with the idea that America needed a penmanship style that could be written quickly, legibly, and elegantly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as personal letter-writing. Spencerian Script was developed in 1840, and began soon after to be taught in the Platt R. Spencer School Spencer established specifically for that purpose. He quickly turned out graduates who left his school to start replicas of it abroad, and Spencerian Script thus began to reach the common schools. Spencer never saw the great success that his penmanship style enjoyed, having died in 1864, but his sons took upon themselves the mission of bringing their late father's dream to fruition.Brian Walker, "Spencerian and Ornamental Penmanship,"
Pen People Magazine (4 April 2004)
This they did by publishing and distributing Spencer's unpublished book,
Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship, in 1866. Spencerian Script became the standard across the United States and remained so until the 1920s when the spreading popularity of the typewriter rendered it obsolete. It was gradually replaced with a simpler and Palmer Method developed by
Austin Norman Palmer.
References
External links
- Spencerian Script Penmanship
- Scanned original Spencer Brothers instructional publications; Spencerian script samples
Spencerian Script is a script style that flourished in the United States from 1850 to 1895. Interview with Michael & Deb Sull of Spencerian.com
Platt Rogers Spencer, whose name the style bears, was impressed with the idea that America needed a penmanship style that could be written quickly, legibly, and elegantly to aid in matters of business correspondence as well as personal letter-writing. Spencerian Script was developed in 1840, and began soon after to be taught in the Platt R. Spencer School Spencer established specifically for that purpose. He quickly turned out graduates who left his school to start replicas of it abroad, and Spencerian Script thus began to reach the common schools. Spencer never saw the great success that his penmanship style enjoyed, having died in 1864, but his sons took upon themselves the mission of bringing their late father's dream to fruition.Brian Walker, "Spencerian and Ornamental Penmanship,"
Pen People Magazine (4 April 2004)
This they did by publishing and distributing Spencer's unpublished book,
Spencerian Key to Practical Penmanship, in 1866. Spencerian Script became the standard across the United States and remained so until the 1920s when the spreading popularity of the typewriter rendered it obsolete. It was gradually replaced with a simpler and Palmer Method developed by
Austin Norman Palmer.
References
External links
- Spencerian Script Penmanship
- Scanned original Spencer Brothers instructional publications; Spencerian script samples
