Help with a Brass Figure and markings

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  1. Shawn M Riani

    Shawn M Riani Member

    gr4.jpg gr1.jpg gr2.jpg gr3.jpg View attachment 242856 I have an item that I've acquired that research, so far, has yielded nothing.
    I was hoping someone would recognize it.

    An old brass figure of what appears to be a crawling man/soldier with a sword, rifle and pistol. It has a lot of writing on it, but I cannot read it. Appears to be Greek?

    Any thoughts?

    Thank You
     
    Last edited: Mar 28, 2020
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  2. flipper

    flipper Striving to face adversity with tact and humor

    Press FULL IMAGE on all of your photos so we all can see them...like this
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    The writing looks sort of Greek, the figure looks sort of Asian, but you need to provide some angles so we can see his face, etc. All of these pictures are for this one piece, correct?
    It will be much easier if you create a post for each piece and provide details accordingly.
    Thanks and Welcome.
     
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  3. Shawn M Riani

    Shawn M Riani Member

    Flipper; Thank you for your assistance on the thread. I've made changes. Here are a couple more images of the figure from different angles.
    I'm interested in what the markings translate to. I tried an online translating page with poor results.
    gr5.jpg gr6.jpg gr7.jpg
     
  4. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

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    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

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  6. Shawn M Riani

    Shawn M Riani Member

    Thank you Kiko!
    The artist's name is E. Nahcepe. Late 1800's artist in Russia. So the language was Cyrillic, and not Greek. Fantastic!
     
  7. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Last name transliterates to Lansere.
     
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  8. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Other name is something like F. Schopenz.
     
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  9. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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  10. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Yup. They show the Russian with an accent over the final E that we have not seen elsewhere.
     
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  11. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    While studying the Russian language I learned that they do not use accent marks. All of our textbooks had them, but those were for the purpose of teaching us where to accent the words. The rules for Russian inflection are not as straightforward as they are for some languages (e.g., Spanish).

    I notice that Lancere was Russian but his family was of French origin. That is probably why the strange placement of the accent mark. It does sound more like a French name that way.

    Note that the Russian Wikipedia article about him only accents his name in the beginning. Nowhere else. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Лансере,_Евгений_Евгеньевич
     
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  12. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Have no doubt you are completely correct. I have no training in Russian but do know I never see diacritical marks used. I think Wiki put that first one there to help with pronunciation since in Cyrillic it is not clear. :)
     
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    roykim New Member

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