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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Wednesday 27 September 23 17:45 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, everyone, for your brilliant efforts. I will follow this up and see if I can get some thing more definitive, but its certainly a great lead and I am extremely grateful for your findings.
I've read the story of John Stevenson and it in itself is most impressive, these 19th Century missionaries were hard and dedicated men and women, one can't but greatly admire their tenacity.
Jaamac

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 19:34 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: kath davis on Tuesday 26 September 23 17:18 BST (UK)
Perhaps a long-shot, but could he be a missionary - in China?  HIs dress certainly looks like a man of the cloth.

Good thinking, thanks.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 15:10 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Treetotal on Monday 18 September 23 14:31 BST (UK)
Hope this helps, I have inverted the image. It could say Dumfriesshire.
Carol

Do you think the 'squiggles' in the centre of the board are Chinese writing?
Jaamac

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 15:09 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: still_looking on Monday 18 September 23 10:26 BST (UK)
Search for '<your graphics software> <your operating system> invert colours' e.g. 'paint windows invert colours'.

Regarding the locket, I thought it might be a sacred heart but I'm not sure. Annoyingly I am pretty certain that I've seen something similar before.

Thinking of something like this, not convinced that its a Luckenbooth or a Vlaams (Flemish) heart.

S_L


Very similar, but I agree, not quite there. I was wondering if it had some military significance.
J

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 15:01 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Carol, nice try. I've convinced myself that it is Dumfriesshire, and that he was 47 years there but unfortunately can't get beyond that. Grateful for your help.
J

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 19:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Girl Guide on Sunday 17 September 23 19:44 BST (UK)
Have you tried turning it into a negative to see if that helps?

Not sure I know how to do that?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 19:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: still_looking on Sunday 17 September 23 13:39 BST (UK)
Tou Shing was a Chinese photographer in Hong Kong.

S_L

Just looked up Tou Shing on the web, I note he was in business in Hong Kong between 1875 and 1881, so this ties in nicely with Ray T's suggestion.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 19:38 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Hepburn,
Can't make out enough detail. Its certainly capped by a crown but quite what the rest of it is I just don't know.
Jaamac

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Identify Victorian photo and inscription
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 17:10 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, Ray T and still_looking, much obliged for your help.

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