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It will be interesting to see if you came to the same answer as I did, and how long it took you. If by any chance you know the answer already, having read the book from which this image is taken, please do not answer! My aim is chiefly to check my belief that stamp collectors are quite good at deciphering handwriting, from all the covers they have studied.
The book's author, clearly no philatelist, had a problem. "The signature was firm and indecipherable," he wrote, and later, "I spent hours trying to decipher the signature, without success." He meets an old lady at a concert, who introduces him to an even older lady, to whom he sends a scan, printed upside down. She demands he resend it, the right way up. He does, and then she tells him the name.
What a to-do! Do you need hours? What do you think the name is? Let me know!
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Lindenfelz or something like that? Should it be someone we (ought to) know?
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Not really, no. I'll give it a day or so before posting the solution.
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Well, I guessed Lindenfelt, and it turned out to be Lindenfeld. Ernieinjax got the first element of the name right without too much trouble, and jansimon, as I expected, got there too.
It comes from Philippe Sands' well-received (but rather obsessive) book East West Street, detailing (and I use that word in every possible degree of meaning) the background to the Nuremburg trials and the concept of genocide. Sands could have saved himself a lot of trouble by consulting a stamp or postcard collector!
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So, who was Lindenfeld?
I was all set to guess "Ludendorff", but then I found out that the (in)famous Erich died in 1937. So, the 1949 date on the back kind of ruled that out.
-Paul
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Lindenfeld was a chap featured on a photograph Sands discovered in his late mother's belongings, which he just had to identify. Turns out L may have had an extra-marital relationship with Sands' mother. Or not. There's a lot of Lindenfeld-searching in old phone books, etc., to establish exactly which Lindenfeld is the one in the photo. It was one Emil Lindenfeld. And that's all there is to that bit of the story.
You may at this point be thinking, "this book is not for me". I'm half-way through and determined to get to the end (I hate leaving books half-read).
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Here is the reverse of an old photo. The question is, who has signed it? Can you decipher the signature at the bottom?
It will be interesting to see if you came to the same answer as I did, and how long it took you. If by any chance you know the answer already, having read the book from which this image is taken, please do not answer! My aim is chiefly to check my belief that stamp collectors are quite good at deciphering handwriting, from all the covers they have studied.
The book's author, clearly no philatelist, had a problem. "The signature was firm and indecipherable," he wrote, and later, "I spent hours trying to decipher the signature, without success." He meets an old lady at a concert, who introduces him to an even older lady, to whom he sends a scan, printed upside down. She demands he resend it, the right way up. He does, and then she tells him the name.
What a to-do! Do you need hours? What do you think the name is? Let me know!
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Lindenfelz or something like that? Should it be someone we (ought to) know?
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re: Can you decipher this name?
Not really, no. I'll give it a day or so before posting the solution.
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re: Can you decipher this name?
Well, I guessed Lindenfelt, and it turned out to be Lindenfeld. Ernieinjax got the first element of the name right without too much trouble, and jansimon, as I expected, got there too.
It comes from Philippe Sands' well-received (but rather obsessive) book East West Street, detailing (and I use that word in every possible degree of meaning) the background to the Nuremburg trials and the concept of genocide. Sands could have saved himself a lot of trouble by consulting a stamp or postcard collector!
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So, who was Lindenfeld?
I was all set to guess "Ludendorff", but then I found out that the (in)famous Erich died in 1937. So, the 1949 date on the back kind of ruled that out.
-Paul
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re: Can you decipher this name?
Lindenfeld was a chap featured on a photograph Sands discovered in his late mother's belongings, which he just had to identify. Turns out L may have had an extra-marital relationship with Sands' mother. Or not. There's a lot of Lindenfeld-searching in old phone books, etc., to establish exactly which Lindenfeld is the one in the photo. It was one Emil Lindenfeld. And that's all there is to that bit of the story.
You may at this point be thinking, "this book is not for me". I'm half-way through and determined to get to the end (I hate leaving books half-read).
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