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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #174258 - 03/05/08 06:21 PM Re: Pinchbeck [Re: The Pook] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2064 Loc: British Columbia, Canada The frame is great. Is he a relative? Top #174261 - 03/05/08 07:14 PM Re: Pinchbeck [Re: Zed] Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 6690 Loc: Vermont I think it's Severus Snape. Top #174265 - 03/05/08 09:36 PM Re: Pinchbeck [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu] The Pook old hand Registered: 02/20/08 Posts: 1067 Loc: Tasmania Originally Posted By: etaoin I think it's Severus Snape. So did I! That's what I captioned it with on my dating photos page for 1840-1860 - Dating Photos 1840s-1860 Originally Posted By: Zed is it a relative? Sadly I don't have any daguerreotypes of relatives. I have no idea who it is. I bought him on ebay (where else?). The oldest photos of relatives I have only go back to the 1860s and are collodion prints on paper. Top #176434 - 04/27/08 06:54 PM Re: Pinchbeck [Re: The Pook] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 9577 Loc: this too shall pass I bubble this thread up today because I opened Daniel Pinchbeck's 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl last night and discovered this line: "For a few years, I flourished in the hectic hothouse and pinchbeck glitter of the "roaring eighties." ol' Daniel must have really gloried in that usage. -joe (gaudy) friday Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7256 Members 16 Forums 12811 Topics 189714 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 2 registered (LukeJavan8, tsuwm), 12 Guests and 25 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members Alan, jincy crow, aml, Goodspeaker, W1343 7256 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12530 Jackie 10392 tsuwm 9577 Buffalo Shrdlu 6690 AnnaStrophic 6489 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4189 March Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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