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Message:: [QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 11385707, member: 78949"]If I may, folks, it looks like a forged item and not so wisely forged. The stamp claims it is in Cyrillic Russian, but it is wrong from what I can see on the photo - it is inscribed "Фабрика МосквЪ" while if it were original, it should have been inscribed "фабрика Москвы" The difference between "ъ" and "ы" is very visible to the one whose mother togue is written in Cyrillic - Russian or another one like Bulgarian. In the Russian language there is almost no "Ъ" - neither as a sound nor as a letter. I say almost as there are few exceptions - like "объявление" for instance. But I am 100 % sure that Genitive of "Москва" is "Москвы", no other option whatsoever. It is another story that it is highly improbable to name any factory as just "Factory of Moscow" without specifying factory of what - neither in Imperial Russia nor in USSR. Moscow had and still has hundreds if not thousands of factories.  In Imperial Russia factories usually bore the name of the owners/establisher, in the Soviet times they were named after communist activists or occasions - like "Kirov Factory" or "October Revolution Factory" or similar.  Even if it were only "factory of Moscow" it should have specified factory of what - i.e. what this factory produces. And of course, Any is right in all she said. In addition, as I am not expert in samovars, I searched the web, and it seems that in present days samovars are only produced in Tula which is traditionally the first and biggest area of samovar production since Peter the Great times. I cannot swear on that as there might be some small workshops somewhere else but all in this "maker's mark" points to forgery (see above). [/QUOTE]

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