This is a font used on a gravestone in Trondheim, Norway. I'm told by people in the gravestone business that it was frequently used on gravestones in Norway in the early 20th century. But no one seems to know the name of the typeface. I've been searching online and talked to several people in the business, but no luck.

I hope someone can tell me the name of this lovely typeface. I would gladly pay for it. The font that is. ;)

Special indentificators for this font is the number 4 and the letters R, A and G.

PS! I'm planning to use this font on the gravestone for my dear mother who has passed away.

Thanks.

100 years ago, gravestones weren’t made using “fonts”, which means prefabricated letters. It was just manual work by the stone masons using typical lettering styles of the time. As a result, there is no font to be identified.

That being said, this general style was also popular for print fonts, which have names and exist until today. You can use this link as entry point and also browse all the similar font to explore the options:

http://www.identifont.com/show?28N

Yes, this typeface is really old. Just this evening I saw another gravestone from 1842 with the same lettering.

Thank you so much for the info and for pointing me to identifont. Thanks.