Tasmania salmon ponds at plenty

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Tasmat
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Tasmania salmon ponds at plenty

#1 Post by Tasmat » Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:25 am

Seeking any info on dates of these postcards, there is a couple of early photos that I thought someone may know whoever the photographer maybe ? Any info appreciated
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Ross Ewington
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Re: Tasmania salmon ponds at plenty

#2 Post by Ross Ewington » Thu Mar 17, 2016 3:04 pm

Hi Tasmat,

if you can post images of the message side of your cards I may be able to assist you with dating them.
Real photo cards were usually printed on purpose-specific photographic stock and what is printed
on the message side (the "postcard back") can be of significance in regard to ascertaining "how old?".

regards, Ross Ewington

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Re: Tasmania salmon ponds at plenty

#3 Post by Des_Beechey » Wed Mar 23, 2016 11:33 am

Hello Tasmat,

1. Is this a postcard or a photograph? If there is nothing on the back it is a photograph. To be a postcard, it needs the words POST CARD printed on the back.
2. As for 1.
3. There are initials on the front bottom right, but I can't work out what they are.
4. As for 1.
5. This is a postcard by J.C. Breaden, who was a Hobart amateur photographer. He was active from about 1920 and died in 1947.
6. This stereoscopic view would be before 1920 I would think.

As Ross says, if you can put up the back of the cards they may be able to be dated more precisely.

Des Beechey

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