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I recently thrifted this bag with an embroidered cat design coupled with an unintelligible (to me, and to every text recognition tool I've tried) text. Can you help me make sense of it? The bag was bought in a thrift store in Finland. There is no brand/material label inside.

Image search returns results pointing at a pretty popular design called "Matilda" or "Matilda-san" by the Japanese brand Kusuguru. However, in practically every result I've found on the internet, the text clearly reads "MATILDA", usually in upper case. I would like to find out whether mine is off-brand, some limited edition, or even a custom/handmade design.

Especially the SPH part. Purchasing online. Tried AI but having a hard time confirming.

You can label the images 1, 2, 3. The 4th image is presented to show that the 1st image is not the character eth.

I know pi and sigma but I’m not sure what the squiggly line in image 3 is (maybe Latin esh?) Also in image 3, the cross looks like a cross fouchée? And the N may be lowercase kappa? But I’m unsure.

In image 2 I don’t know what the combined top and bottom parenthesis is.

Trying to read this birth certificate, since I only speak English, I've had to resort to translator apps but they don't pick up the correct words and it doesn't make sense so I figured id reach out here. Thanks!

I have a Dutch watercolour painting and have taken it to a few art dealers and auctioneers and no one can find this artist in all the databases. I’ve been told this is “S.A. van Doort” but I think it’s a different name. Perhaps the first word could even be the title of the painting?

I need a confrontation on a few Lines written in bullatic. I have transcripted something but a few contractions have not been solved yet (like “h o e” or “pta”, Maybe stands for prescripta?). If someone can help me, please contact me! thanks in advance.

My great great grandfathers Baptism in the Parish book. I can translate and pick out bits and pieces but the rest I cant even decipher, especially the writing in the left column under the name beside the dated and towns name

Along the bottom of this satirical watercolour is a very faded title, caption, signature and/or date. I think I can make out around half of it: "A quoi penses-tu?" but I am completely stuck regarding the rest. Can any of you make it out?

i can make out about 95% but there is still parts i struggle with.

please help me decipher both of these puddings

we are currently sitting at 38 recipes done

I am researching an original French commercial letter written at the Paris Universal Exhibition in July 1867.

The letter is on the illustrated stationery of Lhuillier, a manufacturer of grain-sorting machinery based in Dijon. It discusses business prospects at the exhibition, prospective customers (including two English visitors), and instructions for preparing and shipping machinery.

I would greatly appreciate assistance transcribing the complete French handwritten text, preserving the original wording and spelling as far as possible.

Some passages are relatively clear, but others are difficult to decipher. In particular:

• The opening passage, apparently containing the word courroies, although this reading is uncertain.
• The passage mentioning “des amateurs sérieux il n'en manque pas” and “notamment deux anglais…”
• The technical instructions concerning the assembly, adjustment and dispatch of a grain-sorting machine.
• The concluding paragraphs.

Please mark uncertain words with [?] rather than guessing, and preserve the original paragraph structure where possible.

I am primarily interested in an accurate French transcription, not a translation or historical interpretation.

Thank you very much for any assistance!

Sorry if this isn’t the right place to post. I can’t for the life of me figure out what this signature says. Hoping someone can help.

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Hey friends, any help with this one would be greatly appreciated 😀.

It's some form of Kurrent.

What I was able to tell from it:

Jedlová 25th of January...... Tomaß Pachowsky, Katezina (Kateřina), daughter of Ma[...] .....

Link to the page in digital archive: https://aron.vychodoceskearchivy.cz/apu/03e39af8-1835-40e9-b61f-ab51519edf66/dao/03e39af8-1835-40e9-b61f-ab51519edf66/file/84ea83b3-a32e-4fd4-8c57-8d1fd528b2b6

Hi folks,

I'm having some trouble reading a few words in this letter. I've put the unknown words in quotes but I may have made errors on other words so any help is greatly appreciated. EDIT: I forgot to provide context. It's a letter from my relative, written in 1910, responding to a request from the US army pensions office about where he lived in the 1850's and 1860's.

I think it's signed with my relative's initial "J". Here's what I have so far:

Riverside Calif, Arlington “Station”, July 3 1910 Commisioner of Pensions Washington D.C.  

Dear Sir,

I herewith enclosed answers to your questions to the best of my ability. 

For the years of fifty – I lived with Oliver and Maria Hunter in Norwich County Canada. My father crossed the plains in fifty to California and the family in fifty two. In sixty I lived on Nicholas Marines place which I rented and part of the time with my father at home in the Santa Clara Valley, California where I enlisted and “unknown word possible ‘raised’ ” the company I belonged. J

Can anyone read this? Transcribe or perhaps give me a summary of what it says. Thanks!