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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 4533367, member: 29"]It's old Hoch Deutsch script. Rechnung means bill or invoice, they're all basically types of business correspondence. They also look to be land and property related, legal. I'd suspect filing labels from a lawyer's office. Some of it is abbreviations, which isn't helping me, but I can also see Kammer which means room. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hm. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's a bit weird. </p><p><br /></p><p>XVII. Sausserliche which means saucy (!) in modern German. Then First and Confirmations Letters. </p><p><br /></p><p>LVIII. Conveyancing and Bills of Exchange. That's the closest equivalent to Kauft Cession. </p><p><br /></p><p>Last one is tricksy. The something (abbreviation) of Wine two more abbreviations Room and below that I can make out Rechnung as that middle word. The last one looks like Sachen which means stuff. </p><p><br /></p><p>Lord, German is bad enough in modern script, I alway did fight the older.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 4533367, member: 29"]It's old Hoch Deutsch script. Rechnung means bill or invoice, they're all basically types of business correspondence. They also look to be land and property related, legal. I'd suspect filing labels from a lawyer's office. Some of it is abbreviations, which isn't helping me, but I can also see Kammer which means room. Hm. It's a bit weird. XVII. Sausserliche which means saucy (!) in modern German. Then First and Confirmations Letters. LVIII. Conveyancing and Bills of Exchange. That's the closest equivalent to Kauft Cession. Last one is tricksy. The something (abbreviation) of Wine two more abbreviations Room and below that I can make out Rechnung as that middle word. The last one looks like Sachen which means stuff. Lord, German is bad enough in modern script, I alway did fight the older.[/QUOTE]
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