I just acquired this kerosene lamp, supposed to be from a trawler. Which language is it written in and what does it say? Appreciate your responses!
Either way it's mostly abbreviations. I don't know the letter in black and the letter in the red square looks like a stylised letter N but that's not a Cyrillic letter. Top line reads: chpp N 1 The first letter on the second line could be Л (L) or П (P) so, LEN or PEN. OTD. VOG. Third line: ? oct
From other research on Russian marked things: The stylised western "N" was used in place of "No." or "number" usually before or above a serial number. Probably adopted from the French. Third line the C is and S so OST. It may mean "East" The other letter circled in red above is also not a cryillic letter. It was commonplace to put a G " г." (similar) after a year to signify the year of manufacture "года" / Year but the lamp looks newer than 1896 ? There are several languages that use cyrillic letters including several non-slavic languages, although I have never seen the "N" on anything else but Russian made items. As the item has been discovered in India - we cannot discount the idea that it is of more modern "copycat" manufacture. No less a valid object to possess as it is obviously not new therefore of interest. It also may have been modified/repaired from its orginal form. The gallery looks hand-beaten and the frame seems out of place Perhaps a natural Russian speaker might have more luck with the abbreviations.
This abbreviation means: "training and production enterprise No. 1 of the All-Union Society of the Deaf in the city of Leningrad" 8354 - inventory number, made according to the standard of 1953. This enterprise produced various lamps and lanterns for the river and marine civil fleet.
