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Please decipher
« on: Wednesday 03 February 21 17:11 GMT (UK) »
Dear Friends,

Please turn your august eyes to the handwriting on this label verso to a - I believe to be Spanish - portrait!

Best wishes,

Joshua

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Re: Please decipher
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 03 February 21 21:36 GMT (UK) »
Mr Duffin?
There seems to be an e after the n, and Mr is a guess.
Does any of that little bit run any bells?
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Re: Please decipher
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 February 21 15:31 GMT (UK) »
Hmm, thanks Victoria but no bells I'm afraid. Nothing is known about it, never a tremendous help. Here's the gentleman.

Best,

Joshua

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Re: Please decipher
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 February 21 17:03 GMT (UK) »
I'm wondering if it's Lord Somethingorother, with the top of the "d" squidged by the wrinkles in the paper.  ???

But Lord what..?
McDonald MacDonald M'Donald McGregor MacGregor M'Gregor Twilley Wells Fentiman Carrington Rowe Needham Mitchell Mackie Collingwood Fuller Maides Shilton Hagon Budd

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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 04 February 21 17:09 GMT (UK) »
I found a Lord Dufferin, but a couple of hundred years too young...  ::)
McDonald MacDonald M'Donald McGregor MacGregor M'Gregor Twilley Wells Fentiman Carrington Rowe Needham Mitchell Mackie Collingwood Fuller Maides Shilton Hagon Budd

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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 04 February 21 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Looking at it again, could they last word be Duffrin ?
There is Irish Peerage,Duffrin and Ava.

He is handsome .

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Re: Please decipher
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 04 February 21 19:07 GMT (UK) »
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 04 February 21 22:08 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Karen McDonald on Thursday 04 February 21 17:03 GMT (UK)
I'm wondering if it's Lord Somethingorother, with the top of the "d" squidged by the wrinkles in the paper.  ???

But Lord what..?

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I think he is an oriental gentleman!
Lord No Soo. ::)
With apologies to Charles Dickens and Martin Chuzzlewit !
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Re: Please decipher
« Reply #8 on: Friday 05 February 21 11:16 GMT (UK) »
It appears at my first glance to be two words...No reason to capitalize the D unless a new word. 

First word/name could also be abbreviated  ?au Day/Dey and I get the impression that it may be more Dutch than Spanish. 

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