Could someone please date this photo?

[Suttonrog]

I think you can be fairly confident that this is a staged and dressed photo.

Although it has a postcard back it is really waht is called a Real Photo (by this time a postcard would probably be printed). Paper manufacturers put their identification in the stamp box, but I can't trace this one - which is a pity as the mark changed over time.

So it can be dated to post 1902/4. Skirt lengths had not begun to shorten by then and I doubt that even in costume a marure lady would be photographed with her ankles showing (unless she was an actress). The skirt length is compatible with 1910 onwards.

Rog

[charles w]

Another.

[abbeyfields]

Charles,

Wow, that's really wonderful, thank you so much! What a difference to the original.

Rog,

Thanks very much for that, and for looking for the mark - 1910ish is really interesting. I don't have the couple's (that I think it is) birth dates as yet,but it should be really interesting when I do!


Barbara

[Suttonrog]

I've found the stamp box mark. In this case it is not the paper manufacturer but the photographer, who was AH Chapman.

If you search Ebay on Chapman and look at post cards, you will very many of his Real Photos. He must have been very prolific.

None of this helps with the date.

Rog

[abbeyfields]

Oh gosh! Well, thanks very much for finding it, and well done! I'll go take a look...

Barbara

[saddles]

Hi Barbara..........Heres my colour interpretation of your wonderful photo.


Carolyn 

[abbeyfields]

Oh my gosh, that's truly wonderful, it really is. Thank you so much, that must have taken so much time and skill.

Barbara

[chinakay]

Hi Rog, can you explain "Real Photo"? Never come across the term before...

Cheers,
China

[jim1]

Hello China
What Rog means by a real photo is that it's a photograph directly onto a card rather than a print.
Explanation here.
http://www.postcard.co.uk/beginners_1.php