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Opinion of love token initials / monogram?

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm seeing "A J" but I'm not 100% convinced. Thoughts?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame

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  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That’s very intricate! I’m thinking AJ or AG. Whoever did it was very skilled.

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,273 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Can't tell.

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  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,390 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Could be AT as well. Tough to tell from something that elaborate.

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  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LJG?

  • StrikeguyStrikeguy Posts: 47 ✭✭

    Hard indeed. Thinking maybe AT

  • TennesseeDaveTennesseeDave Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Flip it over and it looks like LV

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TennesseeDave said:
    Flip it over and it looks like LV

    Ooooh. Good call!

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,273 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TennesseeDave said:
    Flip it over and it looks like LV

    By George I think you've got it!

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it like this. But do the acanthus leaves almost seem like they're too droopy?

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • yosclimberyosclimber Posts: 4,813 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Denomination? Photo of other side?

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @yosclimber said:
    Denomination? Photo of other side?

    Photo of other side making an appearance shortly on the BST ;)

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    AJC?

    Frank

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @TurtleCat said:
    That’s very intricate! I’m thinking AJ or AG. Whoever did it was very skilled.

    I've always equated illegibility with great skill. >:)

  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,610 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @topstuf said:

    @TurtleCat said:
    That’s very intricate! I’m thinking AJ or AG. Whoever did it was very skilled.

    I've always equated illegibility with great skill. >:)

    My fourth grade teacher would be surprised to learn my chicken scratch was actually skillful, lol.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe there are three letters there... consult one of the writing experts on the old styles..I do not think the upside down version is likely... the flourishes should be pointing up from what I remember.... Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,258 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Some of those engraving are impossible to decipher, but wonderful to look at! I have many examples of them.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,258 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Check this one out. Incredible skill, likely from the same period, late 70’s early 1880’s. Tiffany aesthetic creamer:

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting, good luck !!! :)

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't see anything but fancy engraving.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland....Wow... that creamer is great.... I would certainly have picked that up if encountered at a thrift or antique shop.....Cheers, RickO

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,482 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @topstuf said:

    @TurtleCat said:
    That’s very intricate! I’m thinking AJ or AG. Whoever did it was very skilled.

    I've always equated illegibility with great skill. >:)

    Yea...............Doctors prescriptions and signatures will confirm that.

    Pete

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,258 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @asheland....Wow... that creamer is great.... I would certainly have picked that up if encountered at a thrift or antique shop.....Cheers, RickO

    It was cheap for what it is, but not thrift store cheap $300 and I couldn't pay him fast enough!

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