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Seek Translation of French Serinette Inscription
By Craig Smith

Hi MMD Folks, I'm restoring an ancient serinette and I found these
notes inside the front panel. It's French, I think, but I'm _not!_

Furthermore, since I'm not familiar with French spelling in general
or French script in particular, I have no ability to recognize iffy
letters in context, as a native speaker could. This was probably
written almost 200 years ago, so it's possible that both the script
and the terminology are different from modern language.

If you are familiar with French writing, would you please take a look
at the attachment and see if you can fill in any missing letters and
hopefully tell me what it says.

Regards and many thanks from Western New York State USA,

Craig Smith

P.S.: The bottom part was written in light pencil so I tried to
punch up the contrast a bit.

 [ https://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/23/03/17/230317_201636_French_serinette.jpg 

 [ I see "Réparé par" and "Retouché par" = "Repaired by" and
 [ "Touched up by". -- Robbie


(Message sent Sat 18 Mar 2023, 02:30:49 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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