Glass/brass lamp with foreign stamp

Hi,
I've come across this unusual lamp/vase.
I wondered if the design is based on an old oil lamp.
The stamp under the base is foreign, could anyone translate it?

Thanks again

 

The language appears to be Greek

 

Or Cyrillic script? Russian maybe?
All I know is, the last word means electrical appliance.

 

So the lack of wiring is a mystery?

 

Who knows what past owners got up to. (people!) I just read what the last word says.

 

Maybe @Figtree3 or @Aznathalie can enlighten us?

 

That would help!

 

The closest thing I could find is Serbian: електрични апарат. @Branka ?

 

A guess: Possibly Russian, quite old, like early 20th century. I am wondering if this is word for the former Kiev, now spelled Kyiv or other versions thereof.

Of course today this city is in Ukraine but it used to be in the old USSR so would probably be marked in Russian. Where are our Russian-knowledgeable Antiquers now when we need them?

 

"Before standardization of the alphabet in the early 20th century, the name was also spelled Кыѣвъ, Киѣвъ, or Кіѣвъ with the now-obsolete letter yat. The Old Ukrainian spelling from the 14th and 15th centuries was nominally *Києвъ, but various attested spellings include кїєва (gen.), Кїєвь and Киев (acc.), кїєво or кїєвом (ins.), києвє, Кіеве, Кїєвѣ, Києвѣ, or Киѣве (loc.).[22]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv

Figtree and Nathalie were only tagged a short while ago. They can't be expected to be here 24/7.

 

AJ, that was a yoke I also linked Kyiv to a Wikipedia entry in my post with similar spelling info.

Funny sidebar: My late husband Richard's paternal grandfather was born in (then) Kiev. He emigrated as a young man to the U.S. some years before 1900. He had a long name with many syllables, hard to translate into any semblance of English. As it happened, he didn't need to.

On arrival at Ellis Island he was asked by Immigration what his name was. He pretended to misunderstand the question as having been asked from where he came.

His port of departure from Europe was Bremen in then (old) Germany. He replied: BREMEN. With a ie-sound on the first E. The immigration clerk wrote down his name as BRYMAN.

From then on he was known as Jacob Bryman. He had received a new American name on arrival in the U.S. that he didn't have to pay for so he liked it. Which is why I, down the line three generations, bear his name courtesy my American husband.

I really like the pretty little lamp and hope it was made in Kiev/Kyiv!

 

My laptop screen is on its darkest setting, so it is difficult to discern those kind of links, only the regular links.

As for yokes maybe emojis help?

 

Sure did. There is one there, could you see it?

 

Not in your first post, with the translators comment, which is what I meant.

 

There’s quite a few items, mostly toys, all metal, that are stamped “UEHA” or “UeHa”, and identified as Russian.

 

Hi,

I am on vacation in California, have just my phone here. The first part appears to say something like Rostovsky-na-Donu (I don't have capability or time to put the Cyrillic characters with my phone). This probably refers to:
Rostov-on-Don https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostov-on-Don
And that is likely to be where it was made.
The electrical apparatus part at the end has already been translated.

I don't see anything about Kiev on it. Perhaps somebody else can figure out the part that Born2it mentions. Those letters transliterate as TSENA in our alphabet. It may be a company name?

 

Hope you have a wonderful time. Thanks for taking the time to help.

 

Quite an old thread but I see that I can contribute so voila:

This is in modern Russian and the inscription says: Rostov-on-the-Don factory for electrical appliances or Ростовский-на-Дону з-д электроаппарат

The part referred by Born2it is about the price, it says:
Price 15 (something not visible, I guess Rubles) - ЦЕНА 15 (рублей)

USSR-Russia lamp, a beautiful one. The cable must have been just cut for some reason.

Figtree3, good work.

P.S. At the time of the question I was not a member here. I speak fluent Russian so if needed, it will be pleasure for me to help.

P.P.S. Sorry, lizjewel, no Kiiv here, purely Russian. But indeed a place relatively close to Ukraine.

 

Wonderful IvaPan, thank you for offering.
And reviving a thread for a useful contribution is always good. It teaches us more about an item, and it is good for people who come across the thread to research their own items.

 

One more comment - for me it did not appear to be an early 20th century piece, looked more like 1970s. And after some digging, it is indeed newer than that.
Rostov-on-the-Don factory was founded in 1955 so the lamp I guess should be attributed to around 1960s-1970s up until 1990 (the fall of USSR).

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Электроаппарат_(завод,_Ростов-на-Дону)