is the first part of it pool gasse? (with the double ss letter in German)
I’m probably not being helpful guessing - you’ve probably figured that much out….
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The first part is Billard - Schach. Pool - Chess.
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I was talking about the small one at an angle? The one with the model kit award attached to it? Is that the one you are talking about also?
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Small correction: Billard is billiards in general, of which pool is one variant. However, in countries where pocket billiards (like pool and snooker) are not the native type, it normally refers to the variants of the game in which the object is to make one ball hit the other two balls that are on the table. (And, oddly, in these areas a lot of people think that pool and snooker are not billiards, but are pool and snooker.) In the German entertainment venue from the photo, I doubt there would have been even one table with pockets.
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The L in Spiel is different than the last letter of the mystery word.
The last two letters look very similar to one another.
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Yes, that’s what I was thinking as well. But the only versions of this photo I can find online are the same size as the photo we have, or smaller — Alamy sells it at about three times the resolution, in which I suspect the unknown word will be legible.
Google tells me that this page should have a version of this photo, too, but the page won’t load much for me. However, I could save it from Google’s preview:
And I think it says SAALE (“halls”/“rooms”), but it doesn’t look like it at first sight because the sign appears to actually be a piece of cloth with a fold in it:
You can tell from how the H in SCHACH is also not quite fully visible
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Ah, I was trying to read the other sign. For this one, is it a fold in the cloth or an extension of the shadow of the tree slightly off scene to the right?
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i am thinking LE are the last two letters.
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I was wondering about that too, but my conclusion is that it’s a fold because some of the letters aren’t the correct width. In SCHACH, the letters in SC and ACH are clearly wider than the H that’s in the darker part. The last word on the second line starts S and ends in LE but what’s between them doesn’t look like any Latin letters, which I think is simply because they’re partly hidden by the fold in the cloth.
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I think I buy that. The one hesitation I have is that the lettering is awfully level for a cloth with a fold in it.
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I had some time to work on the guy with his hands behind his back. The original figure had his hands in his pockets (I have two copies) so I shaved off the bulges where his hands were, and used the shavings to fill in the massive voids you can see in previous photos. I’m going slowly - letting the cement set up before final filling with more styrene chips. I should be able to smooth everything out with any other type of filler. I can see I need to move his head back again - it fell off when I was fooling around with the filler.
I may add flaps to the coat pockets. The style of time allows for them.
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What if the mistery word is the plural of Saal?
Then it would be Spiel-Säle.
Cheers,
Angel
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I’ve decided to put that whole discussion on hold. But only temporarily. I can only fight so many battle at one time.
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Wait, you’re right … I thought the plural was Saale but no, it is indeed Säle.
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I thought so too. The power is suggestion.
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Really excellent figure work Rob. That guy is looking dapper and fantastic.
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