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<p>[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 4467273, member: 13874"]A guess: Possibly Russian, quite old, like early 20th century. I am wondering if this is word for the former <i>Kiev</i>, now spelled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev" rel="nofollow">Kyiv</a> or other versions thereof.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course today this city is in Ukraine but it used to be in the old USSR so would probably be marked in Russian. Where are our Russian-knowledgeable Antiquers now when we need them? [ATTACH=full]386249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 4467273, member: 13874"]A guess: Possibly Russian, quite old, like early 20th century. I am wondering if this is word for the former [I]Kiev[/I], now spelled [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev']Kyiv[/URL] or other versions thereof. Of course today this city is in Ukraine but it used to be in the old USSR so would probably be marked in Russian. Where are our Russian-knowledgeable Antiquers now when we need them? [ATTACH=full]386249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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