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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: People with dogs - Date and location needed
« on: Monday 16 July 12 08:41 BST (UK)  »
Just had another thought. The bowler fellow might be Charles' father Samuel (age 78), which would mean the photo would have to be 1910–early 1911 as Samuel died in March 1911. Is this within the realms of your dating Jim? Though he seems fairly portly for a retired thatcher/ag labourer hmmm.

EDIT: Just had another look to see if I had other photos of Samuel and apparently the below is him. Though I am unsure as to when this photograph was taken (any possibility of an approx date? As I say he was 78 when he died in 1911), if he trimmed his beard, stuck on the bowler and got the large coat I am thinking it is a possible match?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: People with dogs - Date and location needed
« on: Monday 16 July 12 06:55 BST (UK)  »
Hmm no idea, going off 1911 census which is closest information I have around this date, possible families were as follows:

Charles (age 56) - Stockman on farm - Walton on Naze
Benjamin (26), Bertha (24) - Police Constable - Southend on sea

Other possible males around age are all in the Navy and unmarried which seems less likely. So I am thinking the two on the left are Benjamin and Bertha. With the older gentlemen on Bertha's right possible being Benjamin's father Charles. No clue on fourth fellow though. And then could be wrong on all counts.

Does the fellow on the far left look anything like a police constable to back this up, if there is anything about his attire that is revealing of this?

Find attached a picture of Charles taken about 10 years prior if anyone is good at matching faces, they look reasonably similar to me.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: People with dogs - Date and location needed
« on: Thursday 12 July 12 05:31 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Wednesday 11 July 12 15:29 BST (UK)
Telephone connectors?

jim

This was along the lines I was thinking. They appear to be an unusual shape and too regular to be an artefact to me. Though I have no idea what such things looked like back then so didn't speculate.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: People with dogs - Date and location needed
« on: Wednesday 11 July 12 13:59 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks all, gives some food for thought. And no, not really after a restoration.

If its around 1912, its more than likely England. Although possibly a photo from US/Canada though that seems unlikely given the other photos that this was bunched with.

If its who I am thinking it has some relation to the Sadler family, not sure whom exactly still. But if so photo is likely Essex, maybe Walton-On-The-Naze.

For those fascinated by the flying pears, I have no idea. I had a look on my much better original scan, and if they are an artefact they are part of the original photo. Although its hard to tell if they are indeed that or something hanging.


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help restoring digital photo
« on: Wednesday 11 July 12 02:54 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately not much can be done with that photo. If you up the dpi or produce a clearer scan it will come out better.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Old photo needs some work Please.
« on: Wednesday 11 July 12 01:33 BST (UK)  »
Here is my go, detail loss of course but not much can be done with a small image.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / People with dogs - Date and location needed
« on: Wednesday 11 July 12 01:13 BST (UK)  »
So here is an interesting photo, but I have no idea who it is, or even what family. If anyone can narrow this down to a country even that would help, it should be either England or Italy.

Also an approximate date would be appreciated. Cheers.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Battaglini - Date and possible identification?
« on: Tuesday 10 July 12 02:31 BST (UK)  »
Cheers, well that narrows it a little, since going by my impression of his age I would place him closer to Jacopo's generation. Unfortunately I have no information on any brother's of Jacopo (not unusual as the tree I have inherited only lists father and son direct line going back to 15th century). Does make me wonder why someone obtained this picture without giving additional information though.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Battaglini - Date and possible identification?
« on: Sunday 08 July 12 12:23 BST (UK)  »
So I have this photograph that was included with some others of the Battaglini family, of the vicinity of Pisa in Italy.

The photo I have is not an original but part of a series of old reproduction postcards, which have been pencilled in with a number and name on the back – unfortunately I appear to be missing quite a few, as the numbers of the four postcards I have are 3, 4, 7, and 10.

The photograph in question is pencilled 10, underneath in the same handwritting is "Barone Silvatice = Parente di Battaglini". Now 3 and 4 are Ermanno Battaglini (b. 1847) and Raffaello Battaglini (b. circa 1850) who both emigrated to Australia. 7 is Jacopo Battaglini (b. 1813) their father. But I have no idea who this Barone Silvatice is. Jacopo's father Guiseppe Andrea Battaglini (b. 1773) seems a stretch, given the apparent relative youth of the subject.

So I guess what would be helpful is if anyone can give an approximate age of the subject and possible date for the photograph. Or else have any information on a Barone Silvatice. If you consider it at all helpful I can post the other postcards for comparison, but they are all fairly different styles, so probably were not done at around the same time.


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