Hello, recently I bought a WW2 era Finnish Puukko knife, it is inscribed with something in Finnish. Does anyone know what it says?
by Johnnycat3642
Hello, recently I bought a WW2 era Finnish Puukko knife, it is inscribed with something in Finnish. Does anyone know what it says?
by Johnnycat3642
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Top part: “Iisakki” (first name) and probably a last name starting with “Pä”
Bottom part is harder, but I’d guess “Erikoisvuoli”, erikois = special, vuoli / vuolla = carve
Iisakki-Järvenpää
Erikoisvuolu
First part is the maker Iisakki-Järvenpää, second part is the blade model Erikoisvuolu, specialised carving/whittling.
Fun fact, [Iisakki Järvenpää](https://www.iisakkijarvenpaa.fi/us/) (the brand, not the man himself) still makes puukko knives. They represent an Ostrobothnian type of puukkos.
The groove seems to say Iisakki Järvenpää, a well known knife maker.
The main text is indeed probably Erikoisvuolin, “special whittler”.
Edit: erikoisvuolu seems correct, translation doesn’t change much but you might want to say “special whittling”.