This photograph had a lot more to offer than I had thought! I think its safe to assume from your suggestions the fact this photograph wasn't intended to be green
Thank you to both jmagarac and PatBot, for your wonderful colourisations. Our family really like and appreciate them thanks again.
I had never noticed her arm or looked at in more detail before, so it's great to know more about that and the history and processes this photograph likely went through. I too agree, that the hand looks older, she had a sister who was only 3 years older, so it was more likely her mums. Very interesting!
Maybe the studio did something like that. It is amazing what real craftsmen could do back in the day before modern technology.
It is a shame these ways of altering photographs is being lost.
Given what you say about the thickness of the paper, it might well be a sample/proof print and might not have been processed/washed as thoroughly as a final print. This might explain the colour cast.
All the photographs I have of this family from this era are printed on the same sort of paper - inbetweeny paper
. Maybe the studio they used.
Despite what my mum says, as there are no marks on the back, i'm now leaning to the fact this may not be the original? It is definitely old, but may be an early copy of the original? I'm not sure but great to see everyones opinions, thanks all so much.
Very odd affair about her arm though, given you all spotted it so quickly, was it poorly done?
Our family never realised it and its been on the wall years, so they did a good enough job
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