yet another dating request

[chinakay]

You don't have to scan the whole thing at high resolution. Just start the scanner, place your cursor over the bottom right corner of the photo, hold down the left mouse button and drag until you have a box drawn around the area you want to scan. The scanner will just do what's inside that box. Then post the scan...it should work...

Cheers,
C

[sally harris]

here goes then china 1200dpi.
Hope someone can read it.
Sally Harris

[jim1]

                         

                                             T J 1898 ?

                                                  jim

[Maggie.]

I think I can see BARN at the right of the script, or at least ARN.

Maggie

[Rabbit B]

Hi Sally

Well sorry to have taken so long but here is my contrubution

Rabbit B 

[Rabbit B]

and if this sepia one is too big I will have to redo it tomorrow, Very strange it was too small so I have change it.

Rabbit B  

[PrueM]

A bit late to this one, but I hadn't noticed it until now 

I honestly would not put the photo in the 1860s, the little girl's outfit is more circa 1900 to me.  It would be quite unusual and probably expensive to have had an outdoor portrait taken as far back as 1860, although the type and quality of photo would have been possible.

My best guesstimate (having seen many, many similar ones) is 1900 plus or minus 5 years or so.

Hope that helps

Cheers
Prue

[PaulaToo]

You're not the only one who is late, Prue...
This photo screams early Edwardian to me. It's the whole feel of the scene, the pose, the clothes...the whole darned lot.
It's beautiful.
Rabbit, I takes me 'at off to you. The black and white is a triumph and the sepia is lovely.

I had a play with the bit at the bottom...don't know if this helps
 

[Rabbit B]

Hi Prue and Paula,

I have to chip in here because I have had a good look at this picture and I do agree with the Edwardian look.  The well and bucket do it for me. Too modern to be earlier than 1900's.  When did they start making galvanised buckets I wonder?

We still had one like that when we moved to the house next door in the 50's + an identical picket fence.

Rabbit B