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Offline Chris Anderson

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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 11:37 BST (UK) »
Well it seems at though Anne on replies 20/21 was on the right lines then.

You didn't actually show us the picture in its frame did you?

Are you saying that the frame is a mirror one or that there is a mirror border?

Mirror border about 2 inches thick

It's old and degraded though, didn't hit me until Anne mentioned it !

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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 11:39 BST (UK) »

"I THINK I'VE CRACKED IT"


Hope not, 7 years bad luck ?

 ;D ::)
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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 11:53 BST (UK) »
Well although the mystery of the word has been solved, it doesn't help you to identify the lady does it?

I thought it might be the 1920s/30s era.  I don't know if anyone else agrees with that.
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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 11:56 BST (UK) »

"I THINK I'VE CRACKED IT"


Hope not, 7 years bad luck ?

 ;D ::)


 ;D ;D. I did think that was a bit extreme cracking it to solve the mystery.
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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 12:02 BST (UK) »
It's a hand tinted photo and the the number is a photographer's negative reference number for copies...the underlined name is most likely the surname of the person who ordered the photo. I have one very similar of my Grandma taken in the 1940s.
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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #32 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 12:39 BST (UK) »
It's hard to guess her age in the photo but my Grandads mother was born in 1886 so if the portait was done in the 20's to 30's that would make her about 35 to 45 years old in the portrait???

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Re: Writing on the back of a portrait
« Reply #33 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 13:43 BST (UK) »
I THINK I'VE CRACKED IT

This thing was sealed shut in a very unusual frame, it took 12 nails to get it out of a MIRROR border which was plated over oak wood. I wonder, could 1839/15 be measurements of some kind and mirror was the type of frame ordered.

That's how the one I described above was framed...blue tint border, mirror frame with round head chrome screws attaching it to a wooden back.

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« Reply #34 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 14:10 BST (UK) »
Here is mine Chris...taken 1954...I have another one in a similar frame taken in the 1940s  but can't find it...this one is attached to a wooden back....sorry for the shaky image but took it with the ipad.
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« Reply #35 on: Wednesday 09 August 17 20:30 BST (UK) »
Mmm...Three messages and no response...Perhaps I'm invisible  ::)
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