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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Young and old pictures, but of the same person? (Louisa Phyllis Humfrey)
« on: Monday 11 February 19 07:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ruskie, Dulciebun, thank you both for the late replies! I haven't moved much further forward but I think that they are different people, mainly because the confirmed photos from later years both show a shorter nose. It's a bit of a shame but never mind.

I was really surprised coming into all this that none of the old carte de visite photo companies' customer records have seemingly survived. I'd dearly love to be able to tap the number into a search field and get the ID back! 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Friday 11 January 19 16:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Gadget. It's been a half an hour and I haven't changed my mind on "Pantry" which is encouraging!

I may have had the wrong one though. The one I had found with all the merchant navy experience would only have been 13 at the time and therefore not a candidate unfortunately. There is another John Pantry I'm focusing on now though, born 1805. He ran a company manufacturing linen in Sheffield, and there were lots of linen imports from Dublin so may have been a merchant client of the captain. I'll keep looking. 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Friday 11 January 19 12:26 GMT (UK)  »
I'm quietly hopeful that I've found the right person, building on the writing analysis.
I think the author is John Dunting Pantry, written here as Jn D Pantry.

Pantry was a merchant seaman, who from 1838 captained coastal vessels around the UK. The diary is written by someone who knows about sailing but doesn't know the Mediterranean. The age is right. The author is a youngish man, who treats the trip as a kind of mini-Grand Tour.
The captain of the ship (John Monk) spends a lot of time with him and speaks to him as a social peer.

John Pantry lived in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, not too far from Chester & Liverpool. The diary also makes reference to UK landmarks, mostly in the Liverpool area.
I'm going to look through the diary again and see if my flimsy theory still holds!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Friday 11 January 19 10:35 GMT (UK)  »
Having said that the surname likely ends with "ing" I'm now thinking it might end with "y".

Perhaps P___try? Or P___tny?


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Thursday 10 January 19 22:33 GMT (UK)  »
My homemade UV light seemed to help somewhat (taping blue and purple coloured sellotape over my phone's flash). Karen's suggestion that there might be a "g" at the end looks correct. It almost certainly ends in "ing".

The name currently looks to me like a slightly long version of "Panting"?


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Thursday 10 January 19 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jool, Bbart

The author is almost certainly English and reasonably young. There are a lot of references to landmarks & buildings in Chester and that area. "Portman" looks like a possible surname (possibly a little long?), although the diary was written in October 1824 which may not fit with the dates for Lord Portman.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Thursday 10 January 19 17:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Karen, Gadget, yes I think that does help. It now looks like "Lt J P_r_tin". I'll try taking some other photos in different light, and looking at in under a UV light (somehow). I'll also learn to resize my images before I post them here!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help needed with the author of this diary
« on: Wednesday 09 January 19 23:36 GMT (UK)  »
I'd be grateful for any help or advice on the following please. I've got a really lovely diary from 1824 documenting a trip to Italy, but can't make out the author's name. I can see the two uprights of the first names, although the first could be a Lt for Lieutenant. I think the first letter of the surname is a P although it could be a B or an F, but the other letters change every time I look at them. Something like Provost, or Parvlot or Prebus, although the author seems to be English and they sailed from Liverpool.

As this is an original document, are there any tips or tricks i can try? Would ultra-violet light help maybe? I can post further pictures if helpful, but know this is a difficult request!  :(



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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Faulkner. Help with first name please.
« on: Wednesday 18 October 17 08:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. A larger scan won’t help but context might. It is a signature pasted into a scrapbook belonging to Emma Faulkner, Sunderland, 1837.

Lavinia looks possible -  I can see both i’s dotted now.

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