Seed Pearl Necklace and Bracelets

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(06-06-2019 02:47 AM)Steve Wrote:  Thank you everybody who gave their age estimates of the couple based on their looks alone! It was very helpful. For the record if anybody is interested my guess was early 40's, possibly late 30's based on looks alone. I'll write a longer reply when I have more time!

Sorry, folks, but take it from a 75-year-old. The couple in that dag are no spring chickens -- even though the man is better "preserved" than the lady. I remember well the changes that each decade brought, especially the downhill slide after age 50.

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"Laurie - about that P.S. statement, I have literally no idea what you are talking about. Truly.
Mary has been researched and written about extensively also. One would also reasonably assume that legitimate scholars would have seen the large scar and written about it. Yet it doesn't exist, according to the written word. Of course now we KNOW it exists. Why? Because it sticks out like a sore thumb and we can see it with our own eyes."

I have had our research librarian here at Surratt House scan that photo of Mary on page 287 in the Kunhardt book. Hopefully Roger can insert it into this posting or post it on its own. After years of inheriting, owning, and perusing many photos of many people, I have learned to take the age of the photo itself into consideration. I believe that the "splotch" that you are referring to is on the photo itself - not on Mary. The aging and deterioration is evident in other parts of the photo itself.



Moving on to my posting yesterday about my suspicions of your spurious dag: Thanks to our members here, that dag has been enlarged in order to observe details. Just compare the hand that is draped over something (a chair?) near Mary to the plump, pinkish, perfect hand that is holding the cane - its a bad job of photoshopping in my opinion. The head of the cane has also been colorized as has the watch chain. I would never expect to see that on an original daguerreotype.

Since the only source of your research that you mention is the Illustrated Biography, I have asked our librarian to pull it from the shelves and bring it to me to peruse further, especially now that we are going to be judging Lincoln's health by the Meserve photos.