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Offline PaulaToo

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My dear little Mum
« on: Saturday 07 April 07 11:16 BST (UK) »
It's got wallpaper stuck to the back of it, so evidently it was stuck to someone's wall at some time in it's life.
It's been hacked to fit in a frame, which I have never seen.
Now it looks as though it's on it's last splutter.

My dear little Mum, Jessie May Mathias, at her Confirmation.
I would so love to see the picture as clear as they saw it when it was first taken all those years back.
Could someone work just a little magic for me, please?
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 07 April 07 12:23 BST (UK) »
Hi Paula

Here's a couple of restores for you, one smoothed and one original texture.

David
Please feel free to colour or improve for the benefit of the poster but an acknowledgement would be appreciated

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 07 April 07 12:57 BST (UK) »
Hi Paula,
Here's 2 from me
Mudge

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 07 April 07 13:06 BST (UK) »
David, Mudge, thank you once again for your work.
Once more, Mum's lovely face shines through once more.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks


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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 07 April 07 13:18 BST (UK) »
Here's a head and shoulders closeup
Mudge

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 07 April 07 13:51 BST (UK) »
How big is the original, Paula?
Bridge: GT Catworth, Hunts, and surrounding area
French: Blisworth,  and W. Northants

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 07 April 07 14:29 BST (UK) »
Just under 4x3 inches, rance. It looks as though it was one side of one of those postcard photographs and the other side was cut off.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 07 April 07 14:31 BST (UK) »
Didn't say thank you for the head and shoulders, Mudge. She looks sweeter than ever.
Over the years...through the war and illness, those looks went, but her personality was always the same.
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: My dear little Mum
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 07 April 07 19:45 BST (UK) »
here's one from me Paula
Dow/Dowe Norfolk and Suffolk
Mulley/Wilden Suffolk
Loome/lombe Norfolk