Fruit painting/Seeking deciphering

[herman1]

Yes, "Blickens" is possible and right now probably the best observation. But, as I look at the original I see some slanted lines behind the letter "s", and some kind of marking before the letter "B" that seem to run into the B.

I think they mean something to do with artist because they have no place for the actual finished art.

I have a friend thats connected with Christie's. He was getting ready to work on it and another one of my art pieces before he became little sick with Covid. So his focusing on it for the next 6 days of quarantine. It seem I have been running into art with signatures thats hard to identify lately. I have the same problem with two other antique art pieces. One of which is made out of some kind of foil, but only provides an initial.

Stan