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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: HICKELMEYER on Sunday 28 November 10 03:31 GMT (UK)
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ok. if anyone has time, would you kindly have a go at retoring these photos? Thankyou appreciated!
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Hi Hickelmeyer,
I turned the photo of the girl the right way up, and enhanced it a bit so we can see it better to try to get a date for you. Hope you don't mind :)
Do you have the originals of these photos, and if so, can you show us the whole print including any card that they're stuck to, as well as the backs?
For the outdoor group photo, I'm thinking 1860s, perhaps early 1870s, for a date - this is judging by what the lady is wearing.
The photo of the girl seems to have been taken around 1890.
I know you will get plenty more interest and opinion on these :)
Cheers
Prue
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Agree with Prue,1860's for the 1st.one.You can see in this the young woman still has the crinoline of this decade.The man is wearing a frockcoat but it's more fitted than the usual baggy style of the 1860's so I would suggest this is late in the decade.
The 2nd. 1889-93 was when this type of shoulder called a kickup was popular but as Prue said it's better if we can see all of it.
jim
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The first one is specially lovely. Isn't it uncommon to have an exterior photo at this sort of date, Prue and Jim?
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Unusual mainly because of cost.I would think several photos were taken with this commission but that wouldn't be beyond this family as they look well to do.
The photographer may even be a friend or relative of the family.
jim
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It's definitely posed, isn't it - see the boy on the left holding the dog's head still?
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Photographers loathed animals & children,they just won't keep still,the slightest movement resulted in blurring.
There was a standard joke at the time about a photographer in the dock for murdering one of his customers,he explained he'd been trying to photograph her children all afternoon & was completely frustrated by the woman's inability to keep them still,the judge interrupted & said "I used to be a photographer..case dismissed".
jim
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;D ;D ;D :o :o ;D
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Agree with the dates...and the outdoor shot is rather unusual. Mostly they were done in a studio.
I heard a similar joke about somebody on trial for murdering his bridge partner...the judge says, "Hmmm, trumped your ace, eh...I used to play bridge. Case dismissed." ;D
Cheers,
China
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One joke fits all ;D
jim
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thankyou so much for your opinions! I thought it would be around those dates. No, I don't have negatives from originals. Is there a fee for having them restored on this site? esp. My g.g. gma, the girl?
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I forgot- these are copies of originals, the outdoor one had "Thornton Estates South Molton",
Devon. No photographer name, sorry.
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Hi Hickelmeyer,
There is absolutely no fee to have images restored on Rootschat. Simply start a new topic asking for Restoration, and rather than posting the photos again, just copy and paste the URL for this topic into the new topic so the restorers can pick up the images from here.
Cheers
Prue
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If you want these restored/coloured just change the heading to reflect this.
there's no fee,a thankyou is the only currency on here.
jim
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Oh hello Prue....you're up then..I'm just off.bye.
jim
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Hi Jim,
Whatchoo talking about - I've been up hours, me! ;D It's nearly lunchtime here, which much mean it's past your bedtime, so nighty-night :)
Cheers
Prue
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P.S. Hickelmeyer, you could also follow Jim's advice about changing the thread title, if you want. No hard and fast rules here ;)
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A quick cleanon the first one
Tony
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Certainly an upper crust family - they could afford a 'HaHa'
;D ;D
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Certainly an upper crust family - they could afford a 'HaHa'
;D ;D
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Gosh, you're right, that is indeed what that brickwork is! Lovely picture.
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Lost on me...what's a "haha"?
And I don't mean those Christmas smilies ;D
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A ha-ha was a ditch (in this case with a smart stone wall) to stop animals wandering onto the sacred lawn of the upper crust. Peasants had to put up with the animals and what they left behind!
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Ah, got it. Thanks Fred :)
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The key thing being that it was a ditch so that a common or garden wall doesn't spoil the vista. Early version of an infinity pool sort of thing!
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(http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu231/sinbad1/new1-3-2.jpg)
(http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu231/sinbad1/moddy.jpg)
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A coloured version for you ..... nice photo :)
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mjb
Is this photo repair? :D :D
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Ooh, great work, restorers!!! Some fabulous work here. :) :D
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Hi...One from me too
Carol
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...and one with a different tone and an oval mount.
Carol
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My best sepia version :)
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A head & shoulders version