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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 00:30 BST (UK) »
She has no (or minimal) wrinkles around the eyes, which indicates probably on the younger side, say around 15, rather than 18.
(this being before the advent of photoshop  :P  :P  :P )

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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 01:52 BST (UK) »
What a beauty!

If it's a postcard we need to see a scan of the back please.

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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 04:00 BST (UK) »
Hi, Unfortunately i have only a scanned picture of her, i have sent an email to the person that sent me it, but i think that they have gone to the USA for about six months, i'm hoping that this is a picture of my wife's grandmother,who died years before she was born, ( she has no other pictures of her to compare )
I'm also hoping that someone can give me the decade that the picture was taken, which could narrow it down.
Thank you all so far.
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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 05:56 BST (UK) »
Beautiful! ... I'd say about 16years, not really sure of when though, guessing 1920's  :-\

Does it say Sharp's as I see it, or Sharpes as you have underneath the image?


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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 10:40 BST (UK) »
Sharp's, or maybe even Sharf's ??  (on 200%)

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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 19 September 13 10:52 BST (UK) »
 :-\ haven't really come up with anything, i.e. when studio was in business ... there is a leather photo album in a museum collection containing 15 family studio portrait photos and studio mentioned is Sharp studios at Hamilton Coatbridge and Strathaven.... if it was indeed Hamilton UK?

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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #15 on: Friday 20 September 13 05:19 BST (UK) »
I couldn't find anything either, except a modern Sharp's studio founded in 1979 :P
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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #16 on: Friday 20 September 13 10:21 BST (UK) »
16 or 17 taken about 1905 - 1910 is my amateur opinion.
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Re: Any idea when photo was taken and age of girl please
« Reply #17 on: Friday 20 September 13 12:30 BST (UK) »
A look at 1901 census has:

Name:   Robert W Sharp
Age:   41
Estimated Birth Year:   abt 1860
Relationship:   Head
Spouse's name :   Louisa Sharp
Gender:   Male
Where born:   Hamilton, Lanarkshire
Registration number:   647
Registration District:   Hamilton
Civil Parish:   Hamilton
Town:   Hamilton
County:   Lanarkshire
Address:   23 Quarry St
Occupation:   Photographer
ED:   11
Household Schedule Number:   225
Line:   6
Roll:   CSSCT1901_337

Now to find a listing as Photographer, Photography, Studio or whatever  ??? in a directory prior to what is listed today in Townhead St, Hamilton.

Does anyone know if this is the same street as Quarry Street in census having changed name over a period?

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P.S. Robert W described as Photographic Artist on 1891 census
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