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Offline aghadowey

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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #81 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:33 BST (UK) »
Is it a wristwatch? Thought it looks more like a bracelet with a disk of some sort showing.
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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #82 on: Monday 22 October 07 18:36 BST (UK) »
i thought she was quite smiley for a long session taken photograph, it looks to me as if someone has cut an egg shaped around this ladies face and plonked it on top of the old one, it stands out like like a sore finger to me

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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #83 on: Monday 22 October 07 23:06 BST (UK) »
We had a question about wristwatches some time ago and it was Mudge who discovered they were introduced about 1850 in America, where they were quite the status symbol. So...anytime after that, I suppose, for a wristwatch.

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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #84 on: Tuesday 23 October 07 17:08 BST (UK) »
That's interesting about wristwatches. I did not know they were available, and worn that long ago. Of course in the photo it could be as Aghadgowey suggested, a bracelet with an object 'disc'  on the front.

Not applicable in this case of course, but there are places where one can have a picture taken in costume and with a sepia finish it can look quite authentic. I have one of myself in late 19th C. costume. It was taken  just for fun of course. :)
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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #85 on: Wednesday 24 October 07 08:06 BST (UK) »
I don't think it's a watch - it looks more like a lock or a heart.

A thought - are the ladies twins? Identical skirts and blouses. One has her mouth slightly open so difficult to tell but I would suggest that they are not sister and wife, the rivalry would be too intense to wear the same clothes.

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Sorry misread the thread - if they were wife and sister in law they would be sisters.

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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #86 on: Wednesday 24 October 07 16:52 BST (UK) »
Have only just seen this thread  :o
I'm also pretty sure it's a bracelet ....
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Re: Is this photograph "faked"
« Reply #87 on: Sunday 27 July 08 19:29 BST (UK) »
Hi all

I obviously missed the odd reply here and there, thanks for all the comments and work with the pictures.

Just a bit of an update re the original picture, sadly the person who sent  the copy of the picture passed away recently.

Just before he passed away it was mentioned that the picture had been scanned from a photograph, the scan had some scratch removal work and had also been lightened up a little.
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