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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: RobinClay on Sunday 14 February 10 10:35 GMT (UK)
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Your interpretations are invited fro this inscription, please?
It's in the flyleaf of a prayerbook / hymn book. Violet was my grandmother; tthe date is her wedding day.
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To me it looks like
'Violet'
From W.L.F
In memory!
Followed by the date.
Jen
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In memory!
Thank you !
Any other ideas, please ?
I had thought "In sensitivity", but yours is probably more likely.
WLF is probably Canon Feilden, her godfather.
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I'll second Jen.
A
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But if it was her wedding day, why would he write "In Memory"? I find that a bit strange.
Jen
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I think it may say A memory
I'm not sure if it's an exclamtion mark or a question mark.
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Ah Geoff - I think you could be right there. 'A Memory' sounds more likely. And I agree about the exclamation/question mark as well...it could be either, couldn't it?
Jen
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In matrimony!
Of course ;)
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If its a prayer book, and the giver was a clergyman, any of the above suggestions don't ring true ... but I must admit I can't think of anything that fits the inscription; might he have put something with religious over-tones ?
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I agree, why would it say in memory? It could say sincerely
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"A memory!"
Jen has the rest of it right :)
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Try:
To insincerity!
Did she jilt him?
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I think is probably IS 'A memory' but why ? And why is it followed with what I'm inclined to see as a question mark rather than an exclamation mark ?
Maybe she had given up going to church, and he thought giving her a prayer book would jog her memory and maybe spur her into starting to attend again !
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Maybe she was just leaving the area when she married, so it was given as a memory of him?
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Actually - she lived with her parents in Burton-on-Trent; and her husband lived with his parents ditto. After marriage in 1906, they moved about six miles away to what is now Needwood Manor Hotel, and he continued to work at Bass's brewery in Burton until 1925, initially riding to work on horseback. The brewery had stables, of course, which were empty during the day, as the dray horses delivered the beer.
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Definitely "A memory", I think - compare with the capital A in April.
As for the meaning: either he was referring to something in the past, which she would have recognised, but we will never know. Something to do with her early church attendances, perhaps. Or possibly he meant that the prayer book would always serve as a reminder of her wedding day.
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Hi,
Maybe a look through a male eyes...
Could it be:
Violet from W.L.F.
Le Anniversary ?
date and 1906
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It is "memory". There are several points of comparison - the open 'o', the 'm', the 'r' and the Greek 'e'.
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God bit of detective work there ...
Maybe Le Memory ? then...... :-X ;)
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There is a dotted 'i' in the word that IMHO excludes 'memory'
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Hmmm, I don't think it's a dot, just a speck on the paper. His i-dots in 'Violet' and 'April' are very well defined.
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I think it's not a dot.
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`And it would be a lovely memory of her wedding day - it no doubt contained the hymns and the prayers used in the ceremony. It would bring back more memories than a toaster!
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Hi again,
Could it be, even if it looks strange :
In All Sincerity !
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Argh! It's clearly A MEMORY.
Compare the letters with those in the other words.
I agree totally with Sloe Gin - might not make sense to us, but obviously did to the giver and recipient.