Illegible Photo help please

[terry h]

Take a micro recorder with you, easier than pen and paper and cheaper than shoes and shopping   

Terry

[Emjaybee]

mjb

[Ruskie]

It thought there appeared to be a number 7 after "JAN..."

and after "1805"

looks like "AGED X(?) YEARS " ....

[Vasquez109]

Oh dear...I had it down as died Jan 27th 1865.

Maybe my eyesight is going.

[Emjaybee]

All restores I do are on a "best guess" basis - you are probably correct.

[Vasquez109]

Im not so sure! The more I look at it, the more I think you're right!

[chinakay]

Here it is inverted and corrected.

I think it's Jan 27, not because the 2 is easy to see, but if you look at the space between the final D in DIED and the J in JAN, and compare it with the space between the N and the 7....I think there has to be another digit in there.

I think it's 1806.

It's deffo "AGED......YEARS", but the number is completely obscured

Cheers,
China

[Vasquez109]

Thats a nifty tool! What did you use to do that. Ive got Paint Shop Pro X but dont know how to use all the twiddles and fiddles on it!

[chinakay]

It's not very nifty I'm afraid...it's just "Paint" which comes bundled with MS Windows. But it does let you invert colours which often lets you see stuff you can't see in the original photo.

Cheers,
China