Photographer Unknown, (A Decorative Flourish)
A flourish of approval, or a ‘krul’, is mostly a Dutch symbol used for grading schoolwork ot to show that one has seen and agreed with a paragraph. Historians believe that the symbol, first appearing in the early 19th century’s bureaucracy, derived from a hastily written ‘g’ which would stand for good (good) or seen (gezien). Dispite its usage throughout the country and its former colonies there is no unicode symbol for it.