I'm looking for this script font, or for some substitute with the same "grade school" kind of appearence.
I post an elaboration of the original scan, since it is taken from a 3cm wide scan and pixellation is otherwise unavoidable.

The original characters show a somewhat thicker body, but it's not clear to me if it is supposed to be like that or if it is caused by the kind of printing process used to produce it, i.e. hot printing.
Also, the very first production of this thing goes back 20 years or more, so it was assembled by hand on a light table, and I'm sure that, given the size of the output, the digitalization was not accurately done by the printing company, whose owner has passed control down to his daughter: a bitch who hates my guts and who wants three times the price of last year supply. Hence the need to change printing company and the need to recreate the whole thing on a different shape (different hollow punch)

Thanks in advance


Cursive  Suggested by Barone Rossi 

This is not a font but hand drawn. Have a look in the handwriting dept. to find something that suits your needs. http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=603&fpp=100

I know the guy who did this (now retired and transfered to his birth country, Switzerland), and I know as a fact that he did nothing at all by hand: he strictly used those transfer things (don't know how they're called in English, "trasferelli" in Italian) on the light table, with graph paper underneath, scalpels to transfer things from here to there (cut and paste, when you couldn't simply press ctrl+x and ctrl+v), and all those artigianal procedures that made up graphic composition for printing, back then. We're speaking about those times when they used repro cameras to scale things: 100% non-digital.

Anyway, thanks for the answer: I'll try to post this there too (new to the forum, need time to acclimatize...)


EDIT.
I looked over there (and here: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=602&fpp=100 ... and here: http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=601&page=4&fpp=100), and I think the best approximation is:

- Cursive, http://www.dafont.com/cursive-standard.font?fpp=100

despite the fact that it has those "o" with an exit dash which is positioned too low, as most of the calligraphic and script fonts seems to have.

THANKS for the help!

I see four different 'a's. That indicates it is not a font.

If you take into consideration all I said about the file I submitted, you'll see that there are "only" two different kinds of "a" (*), and that the procedure used to create the fisrt original (**) involved applying transferable letters on a transparent film surface: I would guess the guy had not enough "a"-s of the main "font" and he used another similar one as a substitute for the missing letters (***). This is just speculation, though, since I know the guy and I've seen him work many times when I was a kid, but I have no specific information relatively to this particular image.
My request was for the name of the font or for something similar, so it was not important for me if the correct kind of "a" was one or the other, beside the fact that I'm aware that many fonts of that period never made the trip to the digital world.

Anyway, I used what I found, and all is done now.
Again: THANKS for the help!

(*) Other differences are caused by the small size of the original: less than 3cm (around 2,5cm, I guess, but I didn't measure it at the moment), which means less than 10% of a foot, or less than 120% of an inch, if you're not used to the metric system. And by the fact I had to elaborate it in order to avoid the deletion of this post because of a "fuzzy" image, meaning that I had to convert it in a vector based image and create a jpeg from that at an appropriate resolution
(**) The print obtained from the original design was poorly digitalized at some point by someone, don't know how and by whom, giving as a result the recent hot-printed examplar I scanned
(***) Those transferable characters were bought in sheets containing a limited number of repetitions for all the letters: on any given sheet, at some point some letters were consumed and some others were not