Can’t make out what it says on my mobile other than June 7th 1865… So, I’ll venture a guess and say it’s the Kind of cursive they wrote in 1865.
Post this in r/Kurrent. It’s not 100% Kurrentschrift, by the way.
That’s Kurrent. Go to the sub someone recommended, if you don’t find anyone here who has the time to look at it.
And as there’s usually someone who describes *everything* as Sütterlin: It’s not Sütterlin. Sütterlin wasn’t born yet when that document was written.
The only things I can make out are
* “Danzig” above the title
* the letter “D’:” as a kind of title,
* “Danzig” also seems to be the first word of point 1.,
* The word “Frauenburg” written over something else,
* Below point 3, it says “Danzig, den 7. Juni 1865”
* Below that, “Königliche Regierung (?) …”
* At the bottom: “gez. von Auerswald”.
Danzig (now Gdansk) and Frauenburg (now Frombork) are places in former East Prussia, now Poland.
The signature could refer to ~~Rudolf von Auerswald~~ ~~(1795 – 1866)~~ who according to Wikipedia was a high-ranking official in East Prussia at the time.
Edit: Further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, it says that his son, [Achatius von Auerswald](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achatius_von_Auerswald), was “Oberregierungsrat” in Danzig/Gdansk from 1864 till 1871, so the letter was probably written by him.
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Can’t make out what it says on my mobile other than June 7th 1865… So, I’ll venture a guess and say it’s the Kind of cursive they wrote in 1865.
Post this in r/Kurrent. It’s not 100% Kurrentschrift, by the way.
That’s Kurrent. Go to the sub someone recommended, if you don’t find anyone here who has the time to look at it.
And as there’s usually someone who describes *everything* as Sütterlin: It’s not Sütterlin. Sütterlin wasn’t born yet when that document was written.
The only things I can make out are
* “Danzig” above the title
* the letter “D’:” as a kind of title,
* “Danzig” also seems to be the first word of point 1.,
* The word “Frauenburg” written over something else,
* Below point 3, it says “Danzig, den 7. Juni 1865”
* Below that, “Königliche Regierung (?) …”
* At the bottom: “gez. von Auerswald”.
Danzig (now Gdansk) and Frauenburg (now Frombork) are places in former East Prussia, now Poland.
The signature could refer to ~~Rudolf von Auerswald~~ ~~(1795 – 1866)~~ who according to Wikipedia was a high-ranking official in East Prussia at the time.
Edit: Further down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, it says that his son, [Achatius von Auerswald](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achatius_von_Auerswald), was “Oberregierungsrat” in Danzig/Gdansk from 1864 till 1871, so the letter was probably written by him.