[Zernike Au]

Austin, the stamp on your leather case is beautiful.
Jim, may be we can define it as "Chinese Monogram", just like the western world use the alphabet to fit into the circle, this kind of Chinese Calligraphy use a Chinese character to fit into a square, this kind of "monogram" always used in Stone Stamp, it is a kind of engraving mostly in stone. This kind of Chinese Calligraphy have a special name but I do not know it's English term! Maybe Austin can name it in English.

There are 4 characters in this "monogram", it's talking about wine, Austin like wine? The Chinese is reaing from right to left, from up to down, so the first character "right top corner" is "4", the second character "right lower corner" is ."XXX"..Oh my poor english....it is a Chinese unit to measure the volumn, i.e. the amount of wine, something like "onze". I cannot read the third letter, maybe it is the name/kind of wine,
The last character is "wine" at the lower left corner. The meaning of your monogram is "4 (onze?) of XXX wine".

Thanks for sharing.

Zernike