- RT @jamesinealing: Who can I lobby in the UK to get a public domain, publicly held online collection correctly, openly licensed? MP? DCMS? … ->
- Bought this lot at auction & it just arrived in the post – will live tweet pics & info as I unpack the box #mystery http://t.co/rDkYV8vh4z ->
- Here's the opened box, with everything neatly packed http://t.co/qkehKbga4g ->
- First mystery is an envelope marked 'see tokens'. Inside there's an article about red copper token from photo studio http://t.co/6FuHZe5W2g ->
- Next mystery is what's in the small box. Turns out to be a circular piece of glass. A filter maybe? http://t.co/tQbv9taBMm ->
- On to the first bubble wrapped package. Inside a ninth plate daguerreotype and a tiny album http://t.co/dyBv17bOOE ->
- Always hard to get good pictures of daguerreotypes so time to do it with proper lighting http://t.co/OjiSfCIuuR ->
- Open up the album and there's an inscription – to "Joyce M Starke, from her sister Freda, Xmas 1905". Nice! http://t.co/DkeVw4dHD8 ->
- I wonder if the two ladies are Freda and Joyce? Also perhaps their mother? #mystery #genealogy http://t.co/0djHVEAbAB ->
- From a quick search on @AncestryUK there's a Winfred Daisy Starke b.1885 and sister Joyce Marion Starke b.1893 who seem good matches ->
- In 1901 Winifred and Joyce were living at 110 Cavendish Rd, Streatham, London http://t.co/Di2epZ4wPu ->
- … and if the numbers haven't changed, this is the very house they lived in as seen to day on Street View https://t.co/4SF5wWOrwz ->
- Inside the next bubble wrapped parcel are two rather nice, if a little tatty, ambrotypes http://t.co/aIWusfc1T7 ->
- Amazing what a simple clean and some good lighting can do for an image http://t.co/WebpKLmczN ->
- This I really wasn't expecting – if there's an ambrotypes of a bicycle you'd really expect the auctioneer to list it! http://t.co/zG5oQhcWdr ->
- The next package contains a small batch of stereoviews – nothing especially notable, but nice amateur alpine views http://t.co/2ao3UuSHJn ->
- Not sure if this will work, but hopefully this is a pseudo-3D animation of one of the stereoviews http://t.co/GG4pBRoabe ->
- For anyone wondering about the flurry of tweets, I'm live-tweeting the opening of a mystery auction lot! http://t.co/ezH9IeD3gR ->
- It was suggested by @MaddockCarol that I should video the opening of a package http://t.co/UpydKaRXWz ->
- That's odd, in with the colour plates was another ambrotypes. Only two mentioned in the listing! http://t.co/M8Ta1ep6l6 ->
- Time to turn the light box on, but the phone can't cope so I'll switch to the proper camera http://t.co/PGjgtyE5NW ->
- Four wonderful Paget process early colour plates of a family with a young 'Little Boy Blue' ca 1930 http://t.co/jRmjJnd1tQ ->
- Paget plate early colour image of "Thames Shipping" and Tower Bridge ca 1930 by H Hardwick http://t.co/aPViboXTL5 ->
- Autochrome "Century Plant. Agave atrovirens. Kew 7 IX 12" – rare dated early colour image of @kewgardens // @KewDC http://t.co/TsstFbyqbN ->
- The final package is the biggest mystery – a printing frame with a more modern image and a large format film negative http://t.co/0XXJ2fkZg9 ->
- In an auction lot containing daguerreotype, ambrotypes and early colour, you don't really expect to find this http://t.co/R8dEPyfY7s ->
- Zooming in on a Paget plate let's you see the inner workings of this very early colour process http://t.co/0CgsNw6g77 ->
- RT @photocaptionist: @PhotosOfThePast @rainyslip more Paget slides on our online exhib http://t.co/hUpgmfD9AP ->
- Classic Hamlet advert at Wimbledon. https://t.co/nsXo3zbfzK. Here's Alan Parker filming, 1974 https://t.co/XkTQWdtfnO http://t.co/4MHwBRv4Ck ->
- New photo: Paget process or Finlaycolor early colour image, 1930 – close-up showing colour grid: whatsthatpict… http://t.co/ou4pS4Arou ->
- New photo: Paget process or Finlaycolor early colour image, 1930 – detail: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
- New photo: "Little Boy Blue. WC Clothier 1930". Paget process or Finlaycolor early colour portrait of a moter … http://t.co/y6rEK3PbMw ->
- RT @Europeanaeu: Nobel prize-winning physicist and inventor Gabriel #Lippmann died #OnThisDay in 1921. http://t.co/XGc6zHdnno http://t.co/Y… ->
- RT @Europeana1914: Robertine Delplace escaped a blast that killed 2 soldiers in #WW1. Read @JackieStorer's book http://t.co/TNW1dYUyWN http… ->
- RT @CharlieCharlcom: @photosofthepast I was given a lovely collection of Dufaycolor glass slides from 1937 to scan here: http://t.co/SUiEkD… ->
- RT @JayneShrimpton: in August issue @familytreemaguk I explain dating old photos from mount size & shape, card colour & printed designs: ht… ->
- New photo: Early dated autochrome at Kew gardens – "Century plant. Agave atrovirens, Mexico. Kew 7.IX.12": wha… http://t.co/CepRdYQG2I ->
- Striking Bastille Day image – bullfight in Toulouse, 1906 via @bib_toulouse https://t.co/XtqUHnGu6g #onthisday http://t.co/JaquETs7XT ->
- #onthisday 1916 "Suffragists arrested for picketing the White House" via @USNatArchives http://t.co/VindZdK2YJ http://t.co/2zAj8RaGco ->
- I don't suppose any of you clever people can identify the location in this amazing ambrotype? http://t.co/gN7kivBd8Y http://t.co/J6gLOXRgEJ ->
- RT @robnitm: A refreshment trolley in Paddington station, 1910. http://t.co/qyAYNeSWKT ->
- New photo: Highly unusual early colour image of a theatre group, 1920s?: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
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