Eunice & Ron
Nick Hudd's reply rang a bell, as I am an ex-chemist. So I just typed
Alchemy+Symbols on Infoseek. An address that came up was
www.apc.net/drfred/alchem.htm. I'm not well up in this business of sites
but it appears to be in www.levity.com/alchemy. Anyway you can get it from
the browser. Thing is, it shows all the symbols. Your '2/4' is tin. I
imagine the other is possibly a brand mark (as with cattle)
Congrats on the Rugby (& the Referendum)
Gerard McSweeney
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> From: E & R Shanahan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re symbol identity?
> Date: 01 November 1999 22:56
>
> G'day to the listmembers - can any one help with this query please?
>
> We have a letter of 1668 from Hull to London concerning shipping cargo
> between those ports and Holland. The quantities are shown as a number
> then a symbol, then the bill of lading mark - for instance one is a
heart
> inside a triangle.
> The quantities are listed as
> 60 (symbol) (mark);
> 20 (symbol) (mark)
> and the symbol appears to be a combination of the figures 2 and 4 -
> like the sign now used for the planet Jupiter. We have this symbol on
one
> of our fonts, but it will not display in our e-mail programme.
>
> The cargo appears to be pigges of lead so could this symbol be a
> 'quarter' i.e. 8 bushels? Does the symbol mean anything to any list
member?
>
> To put it into some kind of time frame for the language, the final
> sentence of the letter is
> " The 500 pigges I sould were all of the marke (heart in a triangle).
> This with the tender of dew Respects rest Yr Lo friend Will.Raikes"
>
> Any help/information would be much appreciated.
> Eunice and Ron in Queensland
>
>
>
> [log in to unmask]
> check for old letters,Regency, British Postal History and Stamps, stamp
> booklets, discworld,
> http://members.xoom.com/leisurewrite/xmpage.html
> http://www.home.gil.com.au/~ears/index.html
>
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