Monogram identification
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Monogram identification
Hi everybody.I need ideas: what the letters engraved on the gravy boat and is any possibility of identification of the owner.Thank you for your help.
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Re: Monogram identification
I'm not sure this is a Latin (or Roman) alphabet. Then perhaps it would be TA ? I've tried some of the Cyrillic styles, but I'm not that familiar with them. Since this was made in Vienna (Wien) I've looked over a map and tried researching alphabets of neighboring countries, such as Hungary. I'm sorry, but I've found nothing I could state with confidence. Anybody else?
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This link should identify the maker and provide some clues about the marks.
http://www.ascasonline.org/articoloDICEM104.html
http://www.ascasonline.org/articoloDICEM104.html
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And here is the history of the firm which was founded in 1843
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berndorfe ... arenfabrik
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berndorfe ... arenfabrik
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The script is, I think, Latin: AJ or AT
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Re: Monogram identification
Hi. Thank you for desire to help. I think that it's not A - there is no horizontal line.
Maybe it's Cyrillic, used in Russia until 1918? Letter "И" had two option writing: И and I.
El.
Maybe it's Cyrillic, used in Russia until 1918? Letter "И" had two option writing: И and I.
El.
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That may be so but I am inclined to think that the script is Latin and possibly in "Frackschrift", the Gothic type alphabet in common use throughout Germany until WWII.
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possibly a "Y" in alt Fraktur
http://vau-ef-be.beepworld.de/files/alt ... oderne.jpg
but many other examples of alt and moderne Fraktur here:
https://www.google.ie/search?q=frakturs ... TWp7E-M%3A
y
http://vau-ef-be.beepworld.de/files/alt ... oderne.jpg
but many other examples of alt and moderne Fraktur here:
https://www.google.ie/search?q=frakturs ... TWp7E-M%3A
y
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Re: Monogram identification
This could be Russian script "G" and "L":