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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 1895997, member: 1101&quot;]If you come up with an easy answer please post it - I am interested in any comments people may have.&nbsp; I made a quick Google search and came up with a very messy Wikipedia entry for the letter J.&nbsp; If I read it correctly, certain letters did not exist way back when (much father back than the c/stamps we are talking about) and other letters/spellings were common.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do know that in some other languages, names that we know as starting with J start with I, but I take those cases to mean that there is a different word for that name in another langauge.&nbsp; We may be seeing permiatations of all this on the older conterstamps.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Wikipedia illustrated a capital J, and lower case J (both of which are familiar to us), and also what it called a &quot;LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J&quot;.&nbsp; Yikes!&nbsp; It looked like an &quot;l&quot; to me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Someday I will relate an amusing (frustrating at the time) story about the time I tried to get something engraved with my initials in Germany - there was much confusion over the letter J.&nbsp; The way I wrote it down (normal in the US) was interpreted by him as a T....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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