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This appears to be hand-drawn lettering. In the 1960s there were only a few “fonts” available for reproducing lettering in the form of plastic or metal letters, and at that time they were all memorial industry specific styles. Though it was possible to hand-draw lettering styles based on existing typefaces, fonts like Baker Signet were not used on memorials until sometime in the 1990s as the digital era was underway.
This is the latin characters in the Google font named Aref Ruqaa Bold. Additionally, the font you named as Tailends is based on a free font named Black Chancery, of which there are several free versions available online with some differences.
Hello Nicolas, this is believed to be an old plastic stencil press alphabet, likely originally created by a company in Europe. A Canadian company named PMD created a version in the 1980s, but it did not contain any numbers. They named their version Victorian #2. Unfortunately, I am not aware of any digital versions of this alphabet, though I would love to know more information about it if you find anything—or see more images if you come across more of this in the cemetery.
Hello, sorry for the trouble. It is possible that the image you are trying to upload is too large, or is an unsupported filetype. Double-check that you have a jpg, jpeg, or png file; and potentially save it out at a slightly smaller size and try re-uploading.
Hello, this is a version of the monument industry’s Common Gothic font which looks like it may have been slightly manually condensed. It also appears that Dorothy’s information, or potentially just her dates were added at a later time and are a slightly different version of the font, which can be seen most clearly in the number 9.
The MLC has several versions of the Common Gothic font, but it looks like the ScotchKut version is very close: https://www.monumentletteringcenter.com/product/mlc-scotchkut-common-gothic/
Hello, this appears to be a mixed bag of hand-drawn or modified lettering with some metal Spacerite alphabets. You can see that the ‘R’ changes quite a bit at each size.
It is likely that the Spacerite Modified Roman alphabet was used for the endearment, the given name and the date lines, but was modified by hand to be bolder for use as raised lettering. The surname is the Spacerite Double Outline alphabet with the second outline ignored by the stencil cutter—which was common and in fact recommended in the original sales materials when the metal alphabet was first released in the early 1940s.
It will need to be custom matched. Feel free to use the Inscription Matching Service if you would like help.
No, this is a print industry font that is already available from several online retailers, so it is outside of the scope of the MLC font project.
Unfortunately, this is not something I recognize at first glance, and due to the quality of the image it is difficult to see detail in the letters that might help with a potentially font id. If you have any close-up images, that may be helpful.
I believe this is Bookman Bold in Gerber. I am not sure if there is a TrueType version available that matches this version exactly.
Yes, go ahead and put an order in and email the details when you get a chance.
Hi Paul, I believe this is custom lettering. It is reminiscent of lettering from the 1930s and 40s done by companies like Tiffany Studios and the McNeel Marble Company.
