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can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« on: Monday 10 November 14 07:09 GMT (UK) »
A mystery man. No information on photo. Has a green sash. Possibly he was in a war. Sash has possible writing on it.
Latham .banks .o'brien. Thorpe.Knox
Murphy .Stewart .okeefe keefe walsh breen

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #1 on: Monday 10 November 14 08:31 GMT (UK) »
Do you have the original clath. If so can you show the whole thing and the reverse, it could help in dating.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #2 on: Monday 10 November 14 11:17 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Seoras on Monday 10 November 14 08:31 GMT (UK)
Do you have the original clath. If so can you show the whole thing and the reverse, it could help in dating.
Hi seoras yes have the original. No info on back of photo unfortunately. When I tried to post the whole photo it was rejected for being to big.  So had to keep on cropping it down
Latham .banks .o'brien. Thorpe.Knox
Murphy .Stewart .okeefe keefe walsh breen

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #3 on: Monday 10 November 14 12:03 GMT (UK) »
Sashes seem to be normally worn on the right shoulder - the left is kept for particular orders - in UK the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Thistle. (info from Wikipedia) Could the photo be a the wrong way round? - which would help date it I think.

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #4 on: Monday 10 November 14 12:53 GMT (UK) »
Flipped sash.

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #5 on: Monday 10 November 14 15:15 GMT (UK) »
I would guess somewhere around the 1880's onwards. I immediately thought of Freemasons but I'm not sure the sash is the right colour.

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #6 on: Monday 10 November 14 15:23 GMT (UK) »
If the sash was that colour originally AJ. Seems it was important enough to colour so maybe it was.

Clath, if you scan the whole thing then re-size it, you should be ok. I, and others on here, I know use Irfanview for re-sizing. It's free to download and really useful and easy to use. Here's a link.

http://www.irfanview.com/
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #7 on: Monday 10 November 14 15:53 GMT (UK) »
I'm not getting a lot from it, looks like "Defender/Defence" ? but not sure.

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Re: can someone date this photo and decipher possible writing on sash thanks
« Reply #8 on: Monday 10 November 14 18:15 GMT (UK) »
My first thoughts are Irish republicanism because of the green sash.

Would it be possible for you to crop the photo to show just the badge and save it in a higher resolution?

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