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Image on glass - Please restore
« on: Wednesday 13 October 10 14:18 BST (UK) »
Hi,

This is a picture of my 2 x great grandparents Robert and Elizabeth. The image is on glass and in a pretty bad way.

Please is it possible to restore it?

Best wishes,

Carole

Following advice from China I've amended the title of the thread and added a further scan.

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Re: Image on glass is it possible to restore?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 13 October 10 15:24 BST (UK) »
PrueM would be the one to answer your question...she will probably see it on her own but I'll PM her anyway.

She's in Oz so who knows what time it is there :P :D

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Re: Image on glass is it possible to restore?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 14 October 10 02:01 BST (UK) »
Hi Carole  :)

Thanks to China for the heads-up...lovely photo on glass (AKA Ambrotype) but as you say it is deteriorating.  I think you do have some image loss there, the black areas showing are background, where the image area has been lost  :-\

A photograph conservator could stabilise this for you so that no further loss occurs.

In the meantime, one of our fabulous digital restorers will be able to make a lovely reproduction for you - I'm sure they're working on it now!  :D

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Prue

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Re: Image on glass is it possible to restore?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 14 October 10 13:37 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your quick reply China.  :)

Many thanks for the information Prue.

It would be wonderful to have a clearer image especially of my gg grandmother as she died shortly after this picture was taken.

Best wishes,

Carole

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Re: Image on glass is it possible to restore?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 14 October 10 16:33 BST (UK) »
Hi Carole...as digital restoration on this board seems to be your best bet, if you don't get one in a couple of days (it won't be an easy one so give it a little time), either start a new thread with it asking for a restore, or go back to the first post in this thread and amend the title with words like "please restore" to indicate you would like it done. Many restorers, due to bandwidth restrictions, don't revisit old threads.

If you repost the photo in a new thread, you will have to give it a new file name...just add a couple of letters or numbers to it and that will be fine.

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Re: Image on glass is it possible to restore?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 14 October 10 17:07 BST (UK) »
maybe???
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Re: Image on glass is it possible to restore?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 14 October 10 22:20 BST (UK) »
Partly restored, unable to figure out the left side.  :-\

Bill.
Feel free to alter/modify or colour any restores done by me.

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Re: Image on glass - Please restore
« Reply #7 on: Friday 15 October 10 13:06 BST (UK) »
Emjaybe - Many many thanks for your restore. She looks lovely  :)

billkent - Thank you too!!!! It must have taken ages.

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Re: Image on glass - Please restore
« Reply #8 on: Friday 15 October 10 13:17 BST (UK) »
Hi

I am new to this restoring, but I hope this helps


Regards,
CPH
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