Can anyone date this photo from Co Monaghan, late 19th cent. (g-mother's family)

[John Grimes]

I need as exact a date as possible for this attached photo from the Ballybay area of County Monaghan. JG

[chinakay]

Hi John, we'd love to help but this is literally the size of a postage stamp and impossible to see. Please scan the photo at 300dpi, give it a new file name, and repost it.

Also, please don't crop the edges off it, we need to see those. If there is any printing on the back we'd like to see that too.

Cheers,
China

[John Grimes]

Here is the original scanned. I included as much of the border as would fit on the scanner. There is nothing written on the back. It is mounted on stiff paper and was brought with her by my grandmother in 1897.
Thanks
JG

[chinakay]

Well...how sure are you that this was brought over in 1897? This looks, from what I can see of it, to be early Edwardian.

The scan is a very out of focus one, what happened? What resolution did you scan it at?

Can you do another scan at 300 dpi please? I'm sure it would turn out better.

Cheers,
Cina

[John Grimes]

Cina
Did the last one scanned come through? At 300dpi it kept telling me the file was too big. I tried both jpeg and tif.
JG

[chinakay]

Well it won't post a tif, that's way too big.

Whatever you did send, it posted. Can you see it? Can you make out any detail in the photo?

[John Grimes]

Cina
No, I don't see anything at all.
JG

[chinakay]

You can't see the photo you just posted?

[John Grimes]

I can see the first one and the giant second, but not the one I tried at 300 dpi.
JG