date of photograph needed

[Mrs G]

Hello here is a photograph I would like to have dated please.
It was sent to me as an email, I do not have any other information other than it would have been taken in Manchester UK.
 I tidy up would also help if that is possible.
Best wishes, Mrs G

[jim1]

Hello Mrs.G
The lady is wearing a style favoured by older women from 1870's well into the 90's.
The man's style of jacket also 1870's into the 1880's.
The youngest lad's Norfolk jacket & Eton collar are more associated with the 1880's to around 1920 but his military style cap was a trend for boys in the 1870's.
There's something odd about this that you may not have noticed & that is,this photo is in reverse.The lady's wedding ring appears on her right hand & the man's jacket & waistcoat are buttoned the wrong side.
This originally was a Tintype,which was a thin sheet of iron which was put in the camera & the image was burned directly onto it,creating a mirror image.As you can see this is on card which means this is a copy of the original 1870's Tintype.
If this had been anything other than a Tintype I would have said 1880's.
This is what they would have looked like at the sitting.

jim

[jim1]

I've had another thought,the original may have been taken in the 1880's by an itinerant photographer who were the only people using this process at the time.
The quality isn't very good as the lad at the back is a bit blurred as is the rather tatty backdrop.
The subjects are pushed close together so they may be in a booth,if this had been in a studio I would expect to see a better quality photo all round.

jim