Puzzle
Can anybody decipher the writing on this medal?
It looks like the Chinese Small Seal script, but I can only work out a few of the characters at the top: (reading from right to left) “開業二拾”.
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Can anybody decipher the writing on this medal?
It looks like the Chinese Small Seal script, but I can only work out a few of the characters at the top: (reading from right to left) “開業二拾”.
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December 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
The top line looks like ”開業二拾年紀念” 20 years anniversary of opening.
The bottom line looks like “大正十四年十月”
The two “年” in the top and the bottom are different but I think they are just different forms of the same character.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:34 am
If the bottom line says 大正十四年十月, then this is the 14th year of the Japanese period called Taisho (大正 tai-shou). This would be 1925.