Please help decipher this signature

Discussion in 'Art' started by Mill Cove Treasures, May 20, 2017.

  1. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    I picked up this framed etching today. I'm stumped with the signature. I thought the first letter of the last name was R or Y or RY. No clue on the first name. Look at the number 7, does that look European or just rushed? Thank you. (Bottom was in a shadow it isn't darker)

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  2. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I don`t think that is a continental 7 otherwise the 1 (one) would have a stroke like a 7 on it.
    As an example , an Italian girl wrote my room number down on my key at the hotel on Thursday, it was room 11

    I thought it said M :D

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  3. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    It does look like an M!
     
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  4. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    Anivere Yani
    ?
    Probably not
     
  5. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    Looks like Belgium, but I'm sure they have little roadside ditches like this all over Europe.
     
  6. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    Thank you. Your guess was almost the same as mine.
     
  7. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    I tried doing a reverse image search using Google without any luck. So I tried doing it with just the signature and Google was just as stumped as we are.
     
  8. Mill Cove Treasures

    Mill Cove Treasures Well-Known Member

    Bumping this up for another try.
     
  9. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Something Yani?
     
  10. benbenny007

    benbenny007 I buy rubbish, and sell antiques

    Indeed looks like it could be Belgium or a other country in that area. They called those trees BERKENBOOM and they are very common in Holland, Belgium and Germany
     
    Last edited: Jun 17, 2017
  11. Christmasjoy

    Christmasjoy Well-Known Member

    Chivere Yan ?? Joy.
     
  12. Kenneth

    Kenneth Member

    Birch is common all over the Europe, especially in its Eastern part (Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, etc.)
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  13. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    This isn't one of my photos - it's from the internet and it's a canal, but you see this scenery a lot when driving in Flanders - smaller canals alongside the road with these tall trees. The trees in this photo are more mature than the ones in your picture, but it's a common sight. img_3732.jpg
     
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  14. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    And here I was thinking we were in France:D
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  15. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

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