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Subject: [Leica] artists chop - Chinese? identification
From: FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana)
Date: Fri Jul 29 13:26:59 2005
References: <200507291918.j6TJDnSa040304@server1.waverley.reid.org>

>Can anyone help in identifying the characters on this artists chop?
>
>I'm guessing they are Chinese, but they could be something else (having no
>knowledge of eastern languages - I'm not even sure I have it the right way
>up...)
>
>I'm not trying to identify the artist (I know where it came from), but
>rather the characters and possibly what they mean or represent
>
>http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3584663
>
>thanks...
>
>tim a

Tim

It seems to be an ancient word whose whole meaning is very difficult to 
discern but it has following parts from left to right

water
name
king
hand

I hope this helps

Regards

Felix




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