This 'at' starts to appears in the Monotype pattern C (book and news) matrix case. English-standard character set with the 'per' character. see: Legros and Grant, Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The Technology and Mechanism of their production. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1916. pp. 393, 397.

English Court-Hand during the reigns of Henry IV (1300-1413) & Henry V (1413-1422). Top line uses truncation for the word per, the second line does not . see: Andrew Wright, Court-Hand Restored, 10th edition. London: Stevens & Sons Ltd. 1972., plate 15.

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