Bench Gallows Writing Order

[MarcoP]

However, the observation that the crossbar usually aligns well with the second 'c'  and less with the first 'c' to me suggest that the crossbar and the second 'c' were written in one stroke.

That's my impression too. The crossbar-secondC combination looks like an upside-down 2, and I think it was usually written as a 2 in reverse order (staring with the horizontal line and adding the final curved C without lifting the pen from the page).

Isn't the crossbar a separate stroke from either of the two e shapes? I have always imagined benches being made of two e strokes, then a third stroke for the crossbar going from right to left. Quite different from what you've depicted.

Hi Emma, once again you have brought up a new and intriguing subject. Thank you

In post 7 you wrote: "That only confirms what we already knew about the writing order of ch. Specifically, that the cross bar is drawn after ee, and is drawn from right to left. The leftmost e is typically the worst aligned".

I guess you are here referring to some discussion about ch I am not aware of. As I already said, my impressions are quite superficial and I don't remember reading specific discussions on this subject. I am not completely sure that gallowless benches are drawn the same way as bench gallows, but I would be curious to know more of the evidence suggesting that that the crossbar goes right to left.

Doesn't the fact that the leftmost char is less aligned than the rightmost one suggest that the process is not symmetric? Isn't the idea that the crossbar and the rightmost h are drawn in a single stroke a good explanation for what we can observe?
If the crossbar were added after the ee, shouldn't we observe frequent cases like the attacked "fake", where you also have "vertical errors" where the crossbar joins the right e ?