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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: ainslie on Wednesday 15 January 14 14:28 GMT (UK)
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If I have attached it correctly, the image is from a 19th century newspaper article I found a couple of years ago, but cannot now trace. The image I saved from the download has been lost when a PC failed, and the attached version is salvaged from a RootsMagic file. The bottom right hand corner holds a symbol which I think means that the original has been disconnected.
As this is the only image I have of my gt-grandfather, can any wizard cast his/herspell, please?
Ainslie
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Ainsley, it's literally the size of a postage stamp...maybe even half the size. It would have to be big enough to see for a restorer to do anything with it :P
What's his name, location and dates, maybe we can find another image in the web.
Cheers,
China
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Hi Ainslie...Sorry this is the best I can do without making it up...Have you tried googling images using his name? As China says...there is so little to work with :-\
Carol
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One more for your file.
Carol
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Thanks for the efforts. I knew the small original would be hard, even for you experts. I have had some advice about putting a better version of the image on here, so watch out, probably tomorrow.
He was George Heaton Daglish, 1839-1913 and lived in Liverpool. The pic probably dated around 1880-90 and was in a local paper in a piece about a political society. It was not the Liverpool Mercury. His surname might have been misspelled - a common occurrence.
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I have been able to find a better version of the picture. When enlarged it breaks up, but I suspect that some of you experts may be able to work wonders.
Ainslie
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My attempt
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One from me ;D
Irene
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with a tint
Irene
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Another go with the bigger one...I think he's wearing rimless glasses?
Carol
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A different tone and texture.
Carol
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Two more.
Terry
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Very many thanks to all the artists who have done so well. I shall print the results and compare them, to see which will go in the family archive as the oldest image of my paternal line.
Ainslie
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Sorry ainslie but I couldn't find anything on the web. Except he was a mining engineer. And a lot of the photos that turned up were of Paul McCartney...apparently somebody named Daglish did some charity work with him :)
Cheers,
China
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Thanks, China, for looking. I cannot find the newspaper article again either, but did dredge up a better version, which has helped these good people to produce some wonderful results.
Ainslie
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its coming out more like a watercolour than a photo but its the best I can do!
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and a slightly less blue version
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and a colour for what its worth!
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Thanks to you too. I shall have a very hard task making a selection!
Ainslie