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Odd 7 Cm knife inscription translation or place of origin
Can any one translate the writing on this small 7 CM knife or possible place of origin,it came with some WW1 badges and buttons,
An odd item that probably says something like (I have been to Blackpool?) Regards Stephen |
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Knife Writing
Stephen,
Writing looks Cyrillic. I'm no Russian speaker, I'm just going by the Russian Cyrillic alphabet in my dictionary. It appears that the stamping, transliterated, is as follows: 1st line: MIL.ADAMOVI_ (lower case 'h' but upside down = 'ch'; maybe it was stmped incorrectly) 2nd line: LASOVAD (Google Maps can't find anywhere called Lasovad) So, maybe Russian, or maybe some other Cyrillic inspired language. As I say, I'm no expert. Hopefully, this is of some help. Apologies if it isn't. Ian
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The day the government succeeds in taking away our dress uniforms, badges and colours, and all the so called "non-functional" items; they will find themselves with an army that cannot defend them. Robert Heinlein, "Starship Troopers" |
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I have a similar knife, Turkish, brought back from Gallipoli.
Measures approx. 200mm opened up. Cheers, John |
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Text translation by my phone, still none the wiser.
Tony.
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For Christopher night night son. |
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Looks like someone’s name; Mil. Adamovich Lasovats.
The Russian Cyrillic alphabet changed around 1917-ish, when they dropped some of the less used letters, but none of those letters are in this inscription. This may indicate the engraving is post WWI. |
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I would go for something like
MIY ADAMOVIC LASOVAC Adamovic would be a name - literally Son of Adam or Adamson. Lasovac is a place in Croatia - east of Zagreb. Its in an area with a Serb minority population so there may well have been some use of Cyrillic pre-civil war there. |
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According to one of my sons carers it would seem to be someone's name, first name, fathers first name then surname but even she had trouble saying it was old.
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Wow thank you all for your input power of the forum once again
So chaps name and location Regards Stephen |
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? Bulgarian ... similar to cyrillic
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