A crazy Robot

Once you know the history, the mystery deepens instead of disappearing. The script was drawn in the 1880s by a bookkeeper named Frank Mason Robinson, using the elegant Spencerian style that defined professional penmanship of the era. He was not a trained designer in the modern sense, but a practical man tasked with giving a…

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