Checkley: Salem Letterform Comparisons

Letterform Comparisons

Ww
	Capital W sometimes long and narrow	Stephen Sewall
	In capital W the final stroke very prominent in size and it tends to above several letters	Thomas Newton
	Capital W (and V?) occasionally has a distinct sectretary form with an initial flourish	unidentified (scribe D)
	In capital W the final stroke sometimes extends above the following letters	George Herrick
	A 'spiky' W	John Putnam Jr.
	In w, the initial stroke sometimes has a loop towards the left	unidentified (scribe thatt)
	Minuscule w made of two separate strokes (as if i + u)	Samuel Phillips
	Majuscule W has distinctive two strokes with a final curl back around a dot	Andrew Elliot
	the finishing stroke of W tends to extend above the rest of the letter	Isaac Addington
	His letter "w" has a short horizontal beginning stroke and the end of the finishing stroke has a small round "knob".	unidentified (Scribe w )
	Neither of the features of "w" characterizes the scribe's "u", although the "u" has two loops at the bottom and may be mistaken for a "w"	unidentified (Scribe w )
	first loop in w is angular, the second is rounded	Unidentified (MMB #3)
	unique W	Unidentified (MMB #5)