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A scan of a great grandfather I received sometime back. Can anything be done to improve it?

Many thanks

Glyn
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Thomas - Abererch/Porthmadog
Evans - Llangelynin/Llanaelhaern
Jones - Pwllheli/Abererch
Brammer - Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire
Robb - London/Scotland

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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 09 December 17 23:36 GMT (UK) »
My try. Sorry, couldn't do a lot with the face of the other figure.
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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 10 December 17 08:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi Glyn,

Any chance of a rescan at a much higher definition - 300dpi at least. This is reading about 98dpi at the moment  - on my computer anyhow! 

 This is what we get currently when we try to enlarge to fix Great grandfather's face.

It is pretty hopeless, but a better scan could make the difference.

Wiggy    ;)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 10 December 17 08:58 GMT (UK) »
I've had a go and dispensed with his mate!   ;)  (apart from the odd knee!)

 Not good, but maybe a little clearer.
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
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Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 10 December 17 09:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi.
Thanks Peter much improved. I wasn't too bothered about the other figure since I haven't a clue who it is.
Wiggy, unfortunately I do not have the originals they were scanned and sent by my cousin a years ago. Since it is a rural area where he lives the internet might have been poor and that is why he kept the file size small. Things might have improved by now and I will ask if he can re-scan it.

Glyn 
Jones - Penmachno/Blaenau Ffestiniog/Capel Garmon
Thomas - Abererch/Porthmadog
Evans - Llangelynin/Llanaelhaern
Jones - Pwllheli/Abererch
Brammer - Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire
Robb - London/Scotland

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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 10 December 17 09:04 GMT (UK) »
At least you get the idea from what's been done!   A genial looking man!

Was he really missing a finger on his left hand?  Or is it just tucked in?

He looks as if he would have made an ideal Father Christmas!   ;)  :) 8)

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 10 December 17 09:22 GMT (UK) »
Yes Wiggy he was probably guilty of consuming too much of his own product being a cattle dealer. He would buy the Welsh Black cattle from the Llyn peninsula farmers and transport them by train to the markets in England. There is a story in the family that the only scales capable for weighing him were weighbridge for the cows.
In his younger days he would of been very fit since he was a drover and walking the cattle across Wales to London and other towns in England.

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Jones - Penmachno/Blaenau Ffestiniog/Capel Garmon
Thomas - Abererch/Porthmadog
Evans - Llangelynin/Llanaelhaern
Jones - Pwllheli/Abererch
Brammer - Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire
Robb - London/Scotland

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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 10 December 17 13:49 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Can anything be done to restore this photograph - Robert Evans Caernarfonshire
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 31 December 17 19:28 GMT (UK) »
Oh what a lovely looking man.
I think that finger is missing the other one crosses right over it.
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