At first look I thought there were enough similarities to warrant some investigation. The picture would have been taken somewhere between 1927 and 1938 (although it is possible it could be as late at 1939. Looking at as many exemplars as possible that were actually dated (one on a contract in 1929) and multiple ones from the 30's, I'm comfortable agreeing with those that wrote that it's more a product of the way people learned to write at that time. For the most part, Frisch's F's had more of a flourish to them, and even the simpler ones were more than these in the OP's photo. Also, the R's were, for the most part, started way below the F's, and even when it was not exaggerated, it was not real close. Anyway, that's my .02
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