I have been trying to decipher this old railroad freight voucher to figure out what was being shipped. I can read three barrels of peanuts and some kind of extract. Can anyone make heads or tails out of what kind of extract it might be? Its the entry that looks sort of like "ofcou" .
The "ofc" of ofcou looks to be o/c. They don't teach real cursive writing any more. And many schools are not even teaching cursive at all today. Soon, we'll be the only ones left who can even attempt to read this stuff.
Yeah the "ofc" looks more like some sort of short hand or something as it's also present by itself on the right side of the sheet and also at the top in someone else's writing. And the 'u' could be an 'n' based on one of the signatures. I don't think it's a 'type' of extract, it's just extracts. Jason
I had not noticed the o/c at the top left. Frt. is probably short for Freight. So o/c must be short hand for something. Google has not turned up anything applicable so far. o/c on Extract and Peanuts makes sense. Maybe just peanut extract as it is coming from the same source.
That's beautiful. You can tell that the upper part was done with a fountain pen with one of those broad tips, so you could almost do caligraphy with them. I remember in grade school when one "school" of cursive was to replace another, and can't remember the names involved. Some teachers approved, others were upset. "ofc"="office"???
Looking at the upper left, where it shows "Charge", as I stare at that, begin to believe it shows "Frt.o/c". Looking at the right column, and reading at bottom, it seems as thought there was a refund to the shipper. I am now thinking that upper left translates as 'Freight over-charge'.
That makes sense. At first they were charged $15.80 when the correct amount should have been $14.82. Thus the refund of $.98 for the over-charge as shown in the last column. In 1895, 98 cents was a good amount.
