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Title: One more dating please.......
Post by: CandiEvon on Tuesday 01 January 13 21:11 GMT (UK)
This photo is on a large cardboard and pasted in. It is from Nairn & Chisholm, Stirling I am sure she is from the my Cruse line but no idea who she is. Again thank you for any help. Candi
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: Treetotal on Friday 04 January 13 08:43 GMT (UK)
Bringing this one back up for the attention of the daters as it's slipping down the board.
Carol
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: Gadget on Friday 04 January 13 09:28 GMT (UK)
Hi

I'd say that it was WW1 vintage or possibly just before. Maybe taken for husband/fiance/other male relative to take with them. The left hand is hidden so no way of saying if the lady was married or not.

brevitas
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: jim1 on Friday 04 January 13 11:42 GMT (UK)
I would agree anytime from around WW1 to 1920 as styles didn't change much during the war years.
We often see women with their left hand behind their backs & my theory is it's because they are unmarried but that's just a theory.

jim
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: chinakay on Friday 04 January 13 15:31 GMT (UK)
But it's a good theory, it's reasonable and there is evidence to back it up.

Married women were almost always (in a studio setting anyway) posed to show off a wedding ring. Even older women. So if a woman is photographed with her left hand out of view (and we've seen some odd, contrived poses) or even covered with a bit of dress or flowers, we may surmise that she isn't married.

See, Jim does take his meds once in a while ;D ;D

Cheers,
China
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: jim1 on Friday 04 January 13 16:47 GMT (UK)
Down to 1 now China...Viagra..add water & spray on the runner beans...saves on canes.
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: chinakay on Friday 04 January 13 16:56 GMT (UK)
Try a little on the asparagus as well and see if anything happens.

 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: One more dating please.......
Post by: jim1 on Friday 04 January 13 17:28 GMT (UK)
Not posh enough for asparagus..won't eat anything without chips.
Title: Re: One more dating please.......Thanks!
Post by: CandiEvon on Wednesday 09 January 13 21:50 GMT (UK)
Thank you so much Jim, China and anyone else who looked at this photo. I am brand new here and having trouble :) Jim and China gave me the giggles below. I came across several small photos on my Scotish side. I have to scan them to even really see them in my own psp. I am really thinking this younger woman may be my grandmother in her younger days. Another photo may be her older. I will post it as soon as I scan it and a few more.
Cheers!
Candi