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Title: Next one needing a date please
Post by: dawn-in-nz on Friday 01 July 11 11:33 BST (UK)
This is another photo that was with the photos in these two previous posts of mine:-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,541563.0.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,541528.0.html

Is the child a girl or a boy? I originally thought a girl but she/he has short hair. Maybe a younger verson of the young boy in the photograph posted above (1st link)?
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: dawn-in-nz on Friday 01 July 11 12:17 BST (UK)
I found Thomas Donovan Photographer and there's a photo of the same photo backing as above on this page here, said to have been used from 1890:-

http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTNDonovan2.htm

Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: Treetotal on Friday 01 July 11 13:31 BST (UK)
My guess would be a boy.
Carol
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: oldtimer on Friday 01 July 11 13:50 BST (UK)
Another vote for a boy.  :D

He could very well be the boy in your first post - there is a similarity.
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: maidmarianoops on Friday 01 July 11 14:10 BST (UK)
http://www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/DonovanGallery.htm

this is a good site

sylvia

http://www.vastpublicindifference.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: jim1 on Friday 01 July 11 14:46 BST (UK)
Thanks for putting up the back as this says more than the front.
The seated artist by Marion Imp Paris was a design registered in 1892.The Reg. No. 41062 is in the bottom right hand side of the card & on the left hand side is the date code.Although MIP date codes aren't an exact science this one appears to give the date of 1899.

jim
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: dawn-in-nz on Friday 01 July 11 22:57 BST (UK)
Well Jim, yours eyes are a whole lot better than mine! I had to get out the magnifying glass to read those small words. I'm not even sure now I can read it, it looks like 12 after the words Marion Imp Paris and the number on the right does look like 41062 but I would never have picked it if you hadn't told me what it was. Thanks so much for your help.

Thanks to everyone else, looks like the consensus is he's a boy! I did find that site thanks Sylvia, it was linked to the one I posted.
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: jim1 on Friday 01 July 11 23:00 BST (UK)
It isn't a 12 its _ Marion Imp Paris _ . _

jim
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: dawn-in-nz on Friday 01 July 11 23:47 BST (UK)
Oh I see, thank you. I've rescanned it and see that it isn't a 12 after all but it certainly looks like something, perhaps a Q?
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: jim1 on Saturday 02 July 11 12:56 BST (UK)
The "O" represents a dot.

jim
Title: Re: Next one needing a date please
Post by: dawn-in-nz on Saturday 02 July 11 14:02 BST (UK)
O  ;) (thanks again)