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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 4275526, member: 33"]The pictures have now been inserted in full size and the order in which they appear has now changed from what I wrote before. What I called image #2 is now the final image in post #1. However, it is still visible in the current image #1. The one that I called image #4 in post #1 is now image #3.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't read the letters well enough in the other item in post #1, so will skip it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In post #2, the first box (two images) depicts the Firebird and I don't see any writing on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second box (two images) is Сивка-бурка (Sivka-Burka) which is apparently the name of a horse in a folk tale. The Russian version of Wikipedia gives this basic description of the story: "This was the most popular fairy tale among <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4" rel="nofollow">Pudozh</a> storytellers - more than twenty variants are known <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> . In the course of the tale, <a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA" rel="nofollow">Ivan the Fool</a> marries the princess and turns into a prince with the help of the magic horse Sivka-burka." As Any Jewelry mentioned, the box comes from the Mstera factories.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't make out the writing on the third box in post #2.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also can't read most of the writing on the fourth box in post #2, except the word at the left is Mstera.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 4275526, member: 33"]The pictures have now been inserted in full size and the order in which they appear has now changed from what I wrote before. What I called image #2 is now the final image in post #1. However, it is still visible in the current image #1. The one that I called image #4 in post #1 is now image #3. I can't read the letters well enough in the other item in post #1, so will skip it. In post #2, the first box (two images) depicts the Firebird and I don't see any writing on it. The second box (two images) is Сивка-бурка (Sivka-Burka) which is apparently the name of a horse in a folk tale. The Russian version of Wikipedia gives this basic description of the story: "This was the most popular fairy tale among [URL='https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B4']Pudozh[/URL] storytellers - more than twenty variants are known [URL='https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B1%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] . In the course of the tale, [URL='https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA']Ivan the Fool[/URL] marries the princess and turns into a prince with the help of the magic horse Sivka-burka." As Any Jewelry mentioned, the box comes from the Mstera factories. I can't make out the writing on the third box in post #2. I also can't read most of the writing on the fourth box in post #2, except the word at the left is Mstera.[/QUOTE]
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