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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 1835501, member: 33"]I can make out almost nothing of the writing on the first one, due to glare and angle.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second one says, from left to right: Palekh (the city where it was made); "Falcon Hunting" (title); and then the artist's name, either Kislin or Kislik surname followed by a first initial that I can't read.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since you have a lot of these I'd like to recommend using a Russian keyboard (such as <a href="https://russian.typeit.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://russian.typeit.org/" rel="nofollow">https://russian.typeit.org/</a> ) to type the letters you see, and then using Google translate or some other online translator to interpret. These boxes generally have three sections of writing. On the left is the city where made, in the middle in quotation marks is the title of the image, and on the right is the name of the person who painted the box. Normally they are factory employees, but not always. Some boxes have only one or two of the components mentioned. Some have none. And sometimes the three sections of writing are in a different order than what I mentioned above.</p><p><br /></p><p>We can still try to interpret for you. [USER=7302]@April07[/USER] is originally from Ukraine and so learned Russian long ago, and it is more native to her. I'm just an American native English speaker who took Russian in college. There are other native speakers here, but they come and go.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 1835501, member: 33"]I can make out almost nothing of the writing on the first one, due to glare and angle. The second one says, from left to right: Palekh (the city where it was made); "Falcon Hunting" (title); and then the artist's name, either Kislin or Kislik surname followed by a first initial that I can't read. Since you have a lot of these I'd like to recommend using a Russian keyboard (such as [URL]https://russian.typeit.org/[/URL] ) to type the letters you see, and then using Google translate or some other online translator to interpret. These boxes generally have three sections of writing. On the left is the city where made, in the middle in quotation marks is the title of the image, and on the right is the name of the person who painted the box. Normally they are factory employees, but not always. Some boxes have only one or two of the components mentioned. Some have none. And sometimes the three sections of writing are in a different order than what I mentioned above. We can still try to interpret for you. [USER=7302]@April07[/USER] is originally from Ukraine and so learned Russian long ago, and it is more native to her. I'm just an American native English speaker who took Russian in college. There are other native speakers here, but they come and go.[/QUOTE]
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