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From: John Piet
Remote Name: 24.255.33.213
Date: 01/25/2009
Time: 07:58:57 PM
I need some help interpreting the inscription on a German student association stein. The stein was given by ” V. Reinhold v/o Stoff ” and “ K. Stahl v/o Fass ” to their dear Leibbursch “ L.Berlin v/o Tell “. Can anyone tell me what “v/o” means? I am guessing that the words following the “v/o” might be nicknames, but I could use some help in translating them. Also the last line reads “gewd. Sternberg Weihnachten 1909”. I believe the gewd. stands for gewidmet. The only translation I can find for gewidmet is “dedicated.” Is there another translation for it used in this context, why they would use it rather than the more common “z. frd. Erg.?