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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 2796067, member: 14873&quot;]Thank you [USER=88066]@kkathyl0[/USER] That is an interesting observation -- I take it you mean did the die engravers sometimes use burins/punches shaped like&nbsp; letterform parts? I think they may have -- the &quot;blundered&quot; S&#039;s I mention for the Claudius quadrans appear to be a result of careless matching of separate semi-circular burins when making the dies. When I was stone-cutting I always used regular stone-cutter&#039;s chisels. I have always used standard chisels for wood-block/linoleum letterform cutting -- still do. Similarly, I have always used ubiquitous square cut pen nibs for pen and ink Capitalis Monumentalis Lettering renditions such as those on this page.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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