Please help me date and restore old Welsh Ambrotype

[rev.ivorbiggin]

coloured version,
Blanket giving me trouble, best i could do with it im afraid,
Should look on the census and see if theres a pub next door cos the old boy looks as though he's itching to get to it

Ivor

[arevans777]

Very nice colour work, Ivor.   

Your question about the pub  raises the question whether it was customary to take the family photo in the subject's home or at the photographer's studio.  There was a photographer, William Ace & Sons, operating Llanelly at this time. They were also in Vaughan Street where David had his shop/home when this photograph was taken.  It seems likely they were the photographers.

[Gadget]

Hi Antony 

Just putting this to bed with three variations on a colour theme 

First - as i first did it:

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Second, a slightly warmer but more subdued one

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and a dreamier faded one 



Gadget

[Gadget]

Oops - just realised that I've not done them as a mirror image.  Here's one of them:


(If you want the others mirrored, let me know by PM)


Gadget

[arevans777]

Gadget,

They were well worth the wait. Excellent! Thank you so much.

Antony.

[chinakay]

Wow, Gadget! Superb.

[Gadget]

Thank you kindly.  I enjoyed doing the restore and colour 

It's a well travelled image - I brought it back from the North of Scotland on a flash stick 

(a bit like me - Wales ->the World )


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