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My OH, a keen photographer with years of experience judging camera club photo competitions, and a sharp eye for trickery, thinks that the left hand looks like a much older person's hand, with slightly swollen knuckles. There's definitely something odd about both forearms and hands. The hands don't look as if they belong to the same person. To me the right hand looks swollen, and is that a faint ring on the middle finger?  The area above the left hand is blurred, and there is what might be a candle almost obscured at the right edge of the photo.  Could this be an early cut and paste job, with "better" hands and arms, not necessarily from the same person, cut out of other photos and literally pasted on before being re-photographed, with a bit of deliberate blurring at the processing stage, to hide the joins?

Might it be Sex rather than Six. Has that column been corrected?

The earliest known record of Fairbairn & Phimister at the Glasgow address is 1906 and the latest 1914 ( but possibly a bit later); see -
http://thelows.madasafish.com/alpha/EFs.htm#btm

That is useful, thank you.

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