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Offline Rosinish

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Re: Please Help with Dad’s Recovery Phrase
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 17 August 22 06:35 BST (UK) »
Some are difficult to read, have you studied the others for letter comparison as I think no. 22 definitely needs a bit of comparing as the formation of what looks like a backward 'C' is odd.

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 17 August 22 08:24 BST (UK) »
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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 17 August 22 09:34 BST (UK) »
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Re: Please Help with Dad’s Recovery Phrase
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 17 August 22 10:04 BST (UK) »
Caned? or Cared?
Person?
Maximum?
Film?
Gorilla?
Juror?
Loner?

Do you have any other examples of writing so we can better judge writing style of letters?  What was his spelling like?  I think he may be mispelling words e.g. maximam for maximum. 
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner
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