[ANSTHRLD] period anchors (was: Conflict Check: Quarterly, Cross & Anchors)

[Coblaith Muimnech]

Danihel de Lindocolina wrote:
> I dimly recall the Pic Dic or an LoAR saying something about period  
> anchors not necessarily looking like modern notions.

They vary a good deal.  Some of them are awfully close to something  
you'd see in a sailor-man's tatoo, though.  Here're a few I happen to  
have handy:

<http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00018706/image_685>

<http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00018706/image_174>

<http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00001647/image_86>

(Same URLs I sent in December when you asked if anchors were period,  
by the way. . ..)


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