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Offline Ruskie

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Re: Initials?
« Reply #9 on: Monday 01 July 13 14:10 BST (UK) »
I agree with "affectate brother", but I think the second abbreviation is just "K.B."  If you look at the (presumed) name initials, there's a very clear full stop after each letter, and as the second abbreviation has only two full stops, I'm inclined to think it's just two letters, with a flourish to start the B.

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« Reply #10 on: Monday 01 July 13 14:17 BST (UK) »
Possibly! After writing the card, he has gone back and added a thin line around all his letters and I wonder if there is another full stop at the bottom of the "K", with the line enclosing them both the letter and the dot.

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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 00:19 BST (UK) »
Agree with Mike ...I think there is a dot at the bottom of the K .... just really close...  ;)
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Re: Initials?
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 09:43 BST (UK) »
Hello -

There is a full stop after the K - and there is also one after the C, which would rule out there only being two letters, I think.

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Re: Initials?
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 09:55 BST (UK) »
kcb I think but could the gml bit be emh
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Re: Initials?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 14:04 BST (UK) »
Hmm, perhaps you're all right about there being 3 letters. Looking again, I can see that the bit at the end of the K does look as though it could have been added later, rather than flowing on as part of the same pen stroke.

So if he's not been found as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, can KCB stand for anything else?

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Re: Initials?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 14:48 BST (UK) »
I see it as V.M.L. for the first initials and I agree with K.B. as the second.
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