Can anyone read Chinese?

[Brumble-Gum]

I found these letters on an old tin lid I dug up today. Can anyone translate?
Tin lid is about 10x7cm, probably tobacco or opium tin.

 

[DropBear]

Take a better picture and i will send it to a friend of mine.

 

[Brumble-Gum]

Best I could do. Due to resizing, focus become compromised.

 

[Jaros]

Kevin Rudd!!

 

[Tathradj]

Closest I can Find.
Right at the bottom of the page,
http://www.cinarc.org/Opium-2.html

 

[aussiefarmer]

Kevin Rudd!!

hahaha

I think you missed the first line saying "confusher say beware the coming of Kevin Rudd" :lol:

 

[grubstake]

Take a better picture and i will send it to a friend of mine.

This is the best I can do with it:

 

[aussiefarmer]

that's better but I still cant read Chinese lol

 

[Tathradj]

I know,
" Made In China "
Honorable Sum Ting Wong
Opium Factory.

 

[DrDuck]

Good detective work, TJ!

My second daughter speaks and reads Chinese, and is in Shanghai doing a summer school at the moment. I'll send the image on wechat and see if anyone over there can work it out.

 

[DrDuck]

She says it is upside down!

 

[Tathradj]

Thanks DrDuck.
It will be interesting what it actually states.

 

[grubstake]

She says it is upside down!

That'll be because we're in the Southern Hemisphere.

It's much clearer now!

 

[DrDuck]

She is getting an expert opinion.

 

[Brumble-Gum]

DrDuck

Email sent.

 

[HeadsUp]

my missus cant read it . post a clearer photo and it wont be a problem

i will take a punt myself though .

it means " dig 4 feet under this tin to find my gold stash "

 

[Brumble-Gum]

I tried to locate the rest of the tin nothing underneath.

 

[DrDuck]

Bridget says it is in traditional characters, and part of it is a brand name, and probably tobacco rather than opium. traditional characters are tricky to work out.

She apologises for not getting a better translation, but it was her last day or two in China, and she was unable to run it by one of the professors. The other students on her summer school are from all over the world, mainly from Russia, though. Right now she is on the plane back to Sydney.

Anyway, she says she will run it past her professors at the ANU in the next week or so. We will also send it to a friend who is a linguist at a police university in China.

 

[davent]

Says " smokie tobaccoy bad for cough, if you get bad cough from smokie tobaccoy, eat panda bladder and tiger penis"

But I could be Wong!

 

[Brumble-Gum]

Bridget says it is in traditional characters, and part of it is a brand name, and probably tobacco rather than opium. traditional characters are tricky to work out.

She apologises for not getting a better translation, but it was her last day or two in China, and she was unable to run it by one of the professors. The other students on her summer school are from all over the world, mainly from Russia, though. Right now she is on the plane back to Sydney.

Anyway, she says she will run it past her professors at the ANU in the next week or so. We will also send it to a friend who is a linguist at a police university in China.

Cheers, thanks for your help with this.