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Offline maintrain

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Re: Help to date photo
« Reply #9 on: Monday 27 April 09 19:57 BST (UK) »
Hi

Photo wasn't firmly attached to the mount so I managed to seperate them ( i used to do a lot of photo printing so got used to this when I got things wrong)

Unfortunately there wasn't a date on the back which I thought there might have been if it was a reprint.  No clues from a makers name on the print paper either.

There are however some markings on the back.  -   Looks like an imprint of lined paper with some odd words  written in longhand but as a mirror image   Difficult to read but if they look interesting I'll post them later when I've managed to decypher them.


Thanks for all the help so far.

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Re: Help to date photo
« Reply #10 on: Monday 27 April 09 20:25 BST (UK) »
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Photo wasn't firmly attached to the mount so I managed to seperate them
Don't let Prue see this,she'll have kittens ;D
These things rarely had dates on them and agree with Prue I don't think it's a reprint either.

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Re: Help to date photo
« Reply #11 on: Monday 27 April 09 21:51 BST (UK) »
MEOW!  :o :o :o ;D ;D ;D

Maintrain, now you're going to have to stick the photo back on - albumen prints were stuck to heavy card because they were printed on thin paper that curls up if not stuck down!  Also the albumen becomes quite dessicated over the years so it's likely you have exacerbated the process of it cracking microscopically and deteriorating faster.  Tsk tsk!  ;) ;D

As Jim says, the photos themselves were very rarely, if ever, written on.  Usually if there's any info it will be on the mount.  And it's not a reprint - it was taken and mounted in the 1880s/90s  :)

I don't think there's much point trying to confirm the photographer and his dates/addresses...the dating evidence is quite clear from the photo itself.  Many photographers went unrecorded in the directories and listings made at the time and later, and many directories and listings made at the time don't survive now.  There could be a number of reasons for not finding a C Mooney practising in the 1880s/90s at that address but your evidence - i.e. your photo and its mount - says that there was definitely one!

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Prue

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