View sign 'exchange'

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Description

Hold hands in front of shoulder, back of right to right, left to left, index fingers extended and pointing to front and upwards, other fingers and thumb closed; move the right hand to left and downards on a curve, left to right and downwards on curve, right hand passing over close to left, terminate movement when wrists are crossed.


References: buy
Synonyms: bargain, barter, dispose of, purchase, sell, trade, traffic

Notes

This is position 1 hand.

Clark notes:
This is the description most commonly used in the South.

The usual sign in the North is to bring the hands in front of body, index fingers extended, others and thumbs closed, back of right hand to right and front, back of left to left and front, right hand some inches higher than the left, right index over left; lower the right hand, crossing index fingers at right angles between first and second joints, side of right index finger resting on left.

The above signs are used for TRADE, BUY, SELL; in fact, any exchange; and I have seen both used in the North as well as the South, but the first is the more common one in the North, and the latter in the South. I at first thought that the Southern sign was used more in the sense of an uncompleted act of exchange, buying, etc., but this distinction, though sometimes made, is not usually observed.