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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Border searcher on Thursday 05 November 15 14:43 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone help re this photo in terms of period of history? I have photographed this framed picture which I think was a photo touched up with oil paints of my great grandmother Jane.
I am also curious as to the chain/pendant she is wearing. The pendant opens up to allow space for a couple of portraits.
See the other photo for a close up of the pendant. Is there a Masonic connection?
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Hi...and welcome to Rootschat...your photo didn't attach....it needs to be below the allowed 500kbs....try again giving the file a new name.
Carol
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Thank you Carol. I am using a iPad so am a bit stuck! Have asked for help!
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Sorry I can't be more helpful but attaching photos from an I pad isn't easy as you have no control over the image size.
Carol
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Just sending you a private message Border..
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To help Border searcher with images and adding on here (I struggled for so long until I 'got' it - happy always to help ;)).
Image below of pendant:
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And...great grandmother Jane's painting below:
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There is no obvious iconography on the pendant or chain to suggest it relates to an organisation or society. It is difficult to tell from the photo but the central design looks as if it could be floral. My instinct is that the central design may have had some personal significance (flowers for my beloved??)
All the best
Philip
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I can't see any Masonic symbolism there either but if you google "victorian locket necklace book chain" you can see lots of similar chains and lockets ;)
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Many thanks aghadhowey and philipsearching!
I see from Google that this is not unique!
I must say that when I received the 'painting' and the pendant as a result of the death of a cousin of my mother I was very spooked- holding the same pendant as that worn by my dead great grandmother in her portrait! Jane McMichan was of Irish extraction (supposedly an ancestor, James McMichan, had nursed Rabbie Burns until his death and is buried next to Burns) but Jane married a James Murray of Hawick who was a Master Baker and Confectioner in Edinburgh where my grandfather was born. They finally ended up in Kelso, Roxburghshire where they both died. My grandfather was a Mason and I had assumed that his father James would also be one, given his status as a Master Baker and Confectioner.