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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 274525, member: 33"]The image with the Russian label is too small for me to read it. I'm an American who can read some Russian. I do see at the top of the label it says ммп бсср, which means it was made during the Soviet era in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, later known as the Republic of Belarus. </p><p><br /></p><p>Generally labels on Russian or Soviet items have printed parts that are standard labeling and often include handwritten lines describing the specific piece. In this case I don't see any handwriting so it appears it just has the standard label that might describe where exactly it was made and a few other things. I notice that it does have a "91" on it, which might possibly indicate that it was made in 1991 (the year that the republic officially changed names, according to this Wikipedia article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic</a> )</p><p>I'm not at all sure about that, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 274525, member: 33"]The image with the Russian label is too small for me to read it. I'm an American who can read some Russian. I do see at the top of the label it says ммп бсср, which means it was made during the Soviet era in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, later known as the Republic of Belarus. Generally labels on Russian or Soviet items have printed parts that are standard labeling and often include handwritten lines describing the specific piece. In this case I don't see any handwriting so it appears it just has the standard label that might describe where exactly it was made and a few other things. I notice that it does have a "91" on it, which might possibly indicate that it was made in 1991 (the year that the republic officially changed names, according to this Wikipedia article: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byelorussian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic[/URL] ) I'm not at all sure about that, though.[/QUOTE]
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