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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #117 on: Friday 29 February 08 00:40 GMT (UK) »
Hi piestains
This latest one is less KB than the original posting ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #118 on: Friday 29 February 08 00:48 GMT (UK) »
I think it's just how I cropped it.  The original is too big to attach

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #119 on: Friday 29 February 08 06:10 GMT (UK) »
How big is the original?
When I open the latest one in photoshop its showing 16.8 ins x 12.7 ins! and 96dpi

Please could you rescan at 600dpi with no compression (quality the highest setting) and send it to me and I will repost it for you so that it doesn't lose any detail. I'm afraid this is worse than the first one from a restorers point of view.
I shall pm you with my email address

Jenny
Please acknowledge when a restorer works on your photos, it can take hours for them to work their magic

Please scan at 300dpi minimum to help save the restorers eyesight.

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #120 on: Friday 29 February 08 10:56 GMT (UK) »
I've been watching all the posts here with interest and am quite amazed with what you've found out - all the conjecture and facts rooted out - also with some great amusement!
But could someone tell me, or are my eyes deceiving me, why the civilian's double breasted jacket is buttoned up the wrong way?
Dalton - Hampshire (Kings' Somborne, Stockbridge)
Dauscha - Moravia/Bohemia, Austria.
Rolison- Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Berkshire, Hampshire


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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #121 on: Friday 29 February 08 11:08 GMT (UK) »
 ;D
It's the right way for a civilian gentleman.
Direct matriarchal line; ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Ryland-Lechford/Luxford-Bagshaw-Henriett
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis/Davies-Buck-Oakley-
JONES-Roberts-Handy-Ross-Warrillow-Eagles-Cotterill-Bailey.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

STILL LOOKING FOR: Elizabeth Ann Balfour ENNIS nee DAVIS. Disappeared in Adelaide, South Australia. 1881.

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #122 on: Friday 29 February 08 12:05 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, Loneybones, but I've only ever seen MEN's double-breasted suits button from Left to Right, although I do concede Womens button from right to left.  I've just had a quick look at some current adverts and the Mens' are all Left over Right.
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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #123 on: Friday 29 February 08 12:12 GMT (UK) »
Nice point Roli,

Mu suits are left over right but I have a jacket and Tux that are right over left.

Odd.

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #124 on: Friday 29 February 08 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Now that's an interesting point.......
Being a tailoress I tend to notice that sort of thing... but I didn't, so shame on me!
If we were in wartime, I could quite understand make do and mend, and when the buttonholes went having new ones put in the other side... but this is not down as being wartime, so um........

To me, this is another puzzle in this puzzling photo.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Mystery photo in need of a better look!
« Reply #125 on: Friday 29 February 08 12:31 GMT (UK) »
Suttonrog, thanks for that.
I know double-beasted jackets are "ambidextrous" but my line of thinking was that it is, and has been, the convention for men to button L over R. Is there a difference in the cut of your R over L jackets, or your choice to wear them that way?

Paula Too, Was there maybe a different convention interwar? or a difference depending on nationality, perhaps?
Dalton - Hampshire (Kings' Somborne, Stockbridge)
Dauscha - Moravia/Bohemia, Austria.
Rolison- Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Berkshire, Hampshire