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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: NMcS on Saturday 30 January 10 14:00 GMT (UK)
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I am sorry for suggesting this "Mission Impossible"! This gentleman is only known in the family as "Sailor Brown" He appears to be a Tintype which has sufferred very badly over the years. I would like to find out a bit more about him but I think the first thing to do is to try to clean him up a little. I am not very computer minded and scanning him has proved to be an ordeal in itself but if you can suggest anything that would make your task easer I will try to oblige. He is so badly damaged I will be most grateful for any improvement however slight. Oh and if you also happen to recognise the uniform etc...
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well i had a try!?!?! but as you say a difficult one
have to say mine kinda looks like 'frankenstein'
MJB's is great...
not to worry... it was fun
xin
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Thank you Xinia :)
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mjb
LVA
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Wow Thanks Emjaybee! :)
I should perhaps have posted that the damage on his forehead area makes him look like he has a hat but in fact he has a quite high hairline sweeping from his left to right. Another detail that does not show up is that he has a bandage on his left hand
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Amended
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Bookmarked by:
Morrie
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One from me.
Mike.
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Thanks Saddles and embeejay once again for your help and interest
:)
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Hi guys
here is a rescan at 600 dpi for those that want another go at it
Irene
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my try
Irene
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I'm afraid that's as much detail I can get from it :)
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mjb
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Thanks to everyone who helped me here, with a special mention to niksmum who helped me with the resolution
:)
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Hi NMcS :)
Looking at the deterioration pattern around the edge of your photo, I'd hazard a guess that this is a Daguerreotype rather than a tintype, and it would therefore date from somewhere between 1840 and the mid 1850s - a very early photograph! Is the surface very shiny and reflective?
The surface of a Daguerreotype is very fragile and will scratch with the slightest touch, so be very careful.
Daguerreotypes are noted for their clarity and great detail, so I think if you could re-scan this picture at a high resolution without its frame (being very careful to place it gently on the scanner) and then post it again, you might get even better results as the image will then be in focus.
The frame, by the way, is not doing the photo any favours, and is partly the reason that it is deteriorating in that way around the edges. A photograph conservator would be able to give you advice about framing and storage if you were interested.
Cheers
Prue
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Retrieved as much as I could without inventing ;D ;D
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