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I found this on Saturday in Central Florida and it's old, and nice. My problem is that I cannot figure out the inscription language. The piece has the date 1910 but that's all I can glean. Maybe Latin or Greek? Sure is nice to find old silver in the dirt :) Is was made by Unger Brothers which I have verified by the makers mark /w 925 Fine Sterling on the back Measures 1.75 x .75 " Any help would be great.
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Possibly Esperanto. They use the U with the 'U' over' it. Which makes sense being in Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%AC
LOL - ignore my Florida remark! I was thinking of another language!
Sweet, lovely find! A slavic name would be my guess, maybe Belarusian. Could be something like "Wilbiur Jubil..usiek" In the past they used the latin letters (our alphabet) instead of the modern cyrillic, with that thing over the U, breve I think it's called.
Or could be a slavic word for Jubilee, like "Silver Jubilee". Any slavic speaking here at CW?
It's in German.
The script is called Sütterlin.
Could be but wasn't Sütterlin developed later, like during WWII? Spelling doesn't feel German.
German ``Frakturschrift`` ``Gebrochene Schrift`` or ``Gotische Schrift``handwriting (script).
SILBER JUBILEUM in German ``Silver Jubilee``
It was widely used. We had to learn how to write it in German high schools long time ago. Have no idea whether it`s still taught.Personally, I love it.
http://www.math.ku.dk/~thorup/goth/goth01.gif
German, indeed! Thanks Vetraio and IVAN. Fun to learn something new every day on CW!
The A.D.V. below the Silber Jubileum interests me.
A silver jubilee of an organization in 1910?
Twenty five years beforehand would be 1885.
What is A.D.V. short for?
Are you sure those are letters and not month and date (20th)?
The last letter may look look like 20 (if I understood well) but it`s letter ``V``.
As vetraio50 said, it`s A.D.V. Possibly ``.....Deutsche Verband or Verein`` (....German Association). Things like this are almost impossible to identify unless exactly the same abbreviation is found elsewhere.