Gemini from wedding imagery

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I don't know if this is worth mentioning at all, but the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was also made at Lauber's studio and it has Zodiac images. Here's Aries and Gemini:

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It is worth mentioning, Koen, for a number of reasons.

1) Note that Aries is browsing, rather than grazing, but it's clearly associated with the month of March. It has been argued that a drawing of an animal that is browsing can't be Aries because sheep don't browse, but illustrators are not necessarily good at natural history. They copy, they invent, and sometimes they make mistakes (and sheep do sometimes browse).

2) Note the last two characters in the pen test "alphabet" at the bottom. After the regular letters and "et" and other symbols, it includes the inline form of the 9 abbreviation and the superscripted form of the 9 abbreviation. If you look very carefully at the bottom of the column alphabet on VMS You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. you will see the flourished form of the 9 abbreviation character at the end of the alphabet, after a VERY faint z. At first I didn't know what to make of it. I knew what the shape meant but I didn't know why it was at the bottom of the alphabet. Then I saw a number of pen tests that included it as part of the "alphabet" and realized why it was included on 1r—it was learned together with the alphabet.