Ciao qualcuno può aiutarmi a deciper questo testo? Per favore.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1kfd6s6
di Kepkoos
Ciao qualcuno può aiutarmi a deciper questo testo? Per favore.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1kfd6s6
di Kepkoos
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Iisakki Järvenpää Kauhava?
got an image that’s a bit clearer?
“Iisakki Järvenpää Kauhava”
[Iisakki Järvenpää](https://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/en/) is the manufacturer (and the name of their founder), and [Kauhava](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhava) their hometown.
That looks like “Vuolu” model. Quite a good everyday puukko.
I have that same puukko. It says Iisakki Järvenpää. He’s the maker. The model of the knife is Ilves which means a lynx.
(R)akki (J)arrenha [unreadable] auh(o)
The ( ) are letters I’m undure about but put down my first guess with the way it’s written and what fits.
The first “R” looks more like a “D”, but could also be bad handwriting since “Dakki” doesn’t mean anything, while “Rakki” means “dog [deragotary]”. Other words it could be “Pakki” = “(tool)box”, “Jakki” = hooved animal to pull weights like horse, donkey or most commonly cow/nickname.
The “J” i’m extremely unsure about. It looks like backwards “L” or upside down “T”. It could also be “I”, but find that unlikely with how the word continues. I don’t know what the word could be, but likely a name of a place or a person.
The last part “o” could just as easily be “a” and there are a lot of words with either combination of letters. “Jauho”, “kauha”, “lauha”, “pauha”, “kauhoa”, etc…
My first guess for the whole text is that it was a self made inscription and someone’s nickname. Propably an inside joke of sorts.
I guess it’s a Iisakki Järvenpää, model: maakuntapuukko, here is a another one
[https://www.gallerytarvainen.fi/product/2810/iisakki-jarvenpaa-maakuntapuukko](https://www.gallerytarvainen.fi/product/2810/iisakki-jarvenpaa-maakuntapuukko)