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That's not a sharp s, ess-zet. It's simply the long s followed by the
round s, as was used some time ago in English.

Imagine the sentence "Where the bee sucks, there suck I" written with
long s (this to our modern eyes is easily mistaken as an f).

The round s was only used at word ends. Like in german Fraktur (and in
S=FCtterlin), where you have a long and a round s, long at the beginning
and in the middle, round s at the end of a word.

Today you see many a "Gasthaus" written in Fraktur with the wrong s,
the round one, where they should have used the long one.