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Deb D
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Date only please? *COMPLETED, THANK YOU*
« on: Tuesday 30 June 09 13:50 UTC (UK) »
I'm working on restoration of this pic for a relative (it's a work in progress, and she's given me the okay to post it), and we're wondering if anyone can guesstimate when it might have been taken?  We know it was probably taken in Sydney ... any opinions, also, on how old the lad would have been at the time?

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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 30 June 09 15:33 UTC (UK) »
Men are hard to date...could we see the whole thing please including the back?

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Deb D
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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 01 July 09 05:34 UTC (UK) »
Sorry, China, - that's pretty much all I've got, just a scan at 600dpi, and all I've done is trim back and repair the torn corners, plus start to clean it up  Undecided
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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 July 09 15:32 UTC (UK) »
Could you ask the relative if she scanned it in colour, or in black & white? It makes a big difference.

Could you also ask if there is any design on the back?

All I can say from this much is post 1888.

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China
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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 July 09 22:40 UTC (UK) »
China,

That hat looks odd, almost a bowler but low crowned and with a narrow, straightish brim.  Haven't seen many looking like that in post 1900 photos Undecided

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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 02 July 09 10:29 UTC (UK) »
Into the 1890's but by how much I wouldn't like to say.He looks no more than about 15-16.
The back may reveal more.

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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 02 July 09 11:35 UTC (UK) »
Thank you, everyone who's trying to help  Kiss

K ... I've spoken with the rellie who sent me the pic ... apparently there was nothing whatsoever on the back of the photo ... it was actually scanned in colour - d'oh, I should have remembered that, I was the one who converted it b&w!  Embarrassed

The original was very yellowed sepia.
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Anderson
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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 02 July 09 15:39 UTC (UK) »
Okay, sepia with nothing on the back...so I'd go along with Jim's estimate of 1890s, maayyybe up to about 1900, but more than that you'd be very hard-pressed to get Smiley

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Re: Date only please?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 03 July 09 09:17 UTC (UK) »
Thanks heaps, China.  He was born 1882, ... so 1890-1900 would put him somewhere between 8 and 18.  If this was taken around, say, 1895, he would have been about 13.  Works for me - will mark the thread completed Grin
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Morgan
Delves
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