The alphabet of this issue of MAH! is one of the alphabets designed after an inscription found in a remote cemetery in Tuscany on the gravestone of a metal worker (died in 1919 due to the Spanish flue) and after the discovery that in a town nearby the metal workers who forged nails formed like a tribe on their own, with their own traditions and their own language. Could they also have had their own writing and their own alphabet? And the inscription on the gravestone, carved with cuneiform-type of characters that reminded of nails, could it be the proof?
In this issue of MAH! the nail-like alphabet features invented conversations among the iron workers. The issue includes a hand-pulled etching printed on top of a letterpress page reporting the furious rage of a blacksmith.