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Offline Braban

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Mourning brooch
« on: Sunday 26 December 21 14:46 GMT (UK) »
This is a photo of a mourning brooch, it contains a loch of hair. It is small, only 2cm x1cm

On the reverse are initials which I can’t work out. I am hoping that someone will be able to decipher them.Thank you!
Devon: Chugg, Lerwill, Richards
Durham: Caswell, Charlton, Gustard
Hampshire: Dowdell, Hagg, Ludlow, Joliffe
Northumberland: Dagg, Turnbull
Somerset: Amesbury, Sage

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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 December 21 14:53 GMT (UK) »
It looks like  J* T 

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* or, possibly, I
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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 26 December 21 16:04 GMT (UK) »
It looks like  J* T 

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* or, possibly, I

My thoughts exactly !
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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 26 December 21 19:59 GMT (UK) »
Lock of hair and J T is my pick as well. 


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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 26 December 21 22:25 GMT (UK) »
Yes , most likely JT.  or IT.
No cross bar for F .
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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #5 on: Monday 27 December 21 08:19 GMT (UK) »
I agree with the above, though I suggest an “I” rather than “J” due to the lack of a tail, however a tail could have been omitted to make the letters fit more neatly on the brooch. (hedging my bets here)  :)

There are probably more names which begin with a J rather than an I, so may be more likely to be a J (more hedging)  :)

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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #6 on: Monday 27 December 21 08:55 GMT (UK) »
Looks like IT for me
If a tail on the first letter went below the line, then JT
NORTON (Kent), KEECH (Dorset), MOOR / MOORE (Kent), HOCKING (Dorset / Somerset), LEVI (City of York), SANDWELL (Kent), CHAFFIN  (Dorset / Somerset), STRONG (Dorset)

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Re: Mourning brooch
« Reply #7 on: Monday 27 December 21 09:13 GMT (UK) »
It looks like  J* T 

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* or, possibly, I

My first thought when I saw it too. - J T .

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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