Some pictures to accompany recent posts

[rhu]

Alissa posted this sign on our front door on Friday; she figured the tooth fairy would benefit from a little advance notice. The layout is kinda boustrophedonic (boustrophedental?) but it says, reading down the left column and up the right, "Dear tooth fairy, my tooth wo [=will] fall out soon."


A closeup of some text from Max's machzor. Can anyone identify the lettershapes that are neither standard Hebrew block letters nor standard Rashi script? I've never seen those lettershapes before; they seem to show up in Yiddish "stage direction" paragraphs, often in place names, I think.

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[abbasegal.livejournal.com]

Wow. Down our way, Rivkie hasn't even lost any teeth yet, let alone Moll. (Rivkie does have one tooth that is showing signs of looseness, but it could still be months before it falls out).

Jen and I were both late tooth-exchangers, so this isn't really a surprise.

The script might be "Vabertaytsh" See for example here or here. Zoom in on the sothebys item and some of those glyphs look similar.

If you really want a more definitive answer, I'd recommend sending the question to the shaarei list. (Or just bring it to shul and ask Avi Rockoff!) But do let me know the answer!

Moadim L'simchah!

[lucretia-borgia.livejournal.com]

Yaay teeth. What's the going rate for the tooth fairy?

Seems G hasn't lost any yet because they're aiming to come in *behind* his current ones. I'll be sure to get pix of his shark teeth before heading off to the dentist for a pulling. (And hopefully the tooth fairy will cover what our dental insurance doesn't.)

Whose machzor is this? Some of those letters look straight out of LoTR.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

There seems to be wide variation in the going rate. Our kids have been receiving Sacagawea dollars.

The machzor was my great-grandfather's.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

lucretia, are you referring to the letters on the bottom? That's called "fractur", which was the standard font for printed texts in German until sometime around the middle of the 20th century.