I am not sure where to put these. I recently picked these up at a local auction. I am looking for some information on the first print especially time-era! The second print I am well aware of Lady Butler's excellent work i am very pleased that it came in the original 1910 frame! I am sure i will probably have to get it re-matted. thanks

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Lady Butler

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I would guess the first print of the man to be about 1900 and Australian or New Zealand ... but perhaps one of the British regiment pinned their hats up that way as well.

Dave

I do not know anything about photos.
The second image is a commercial stone lithograph. A popular form of printing during the period of creation. The image is drawn on a Bavarian limestone with grease pencils and acid etched to creat shades of blacks and greys. Then inked and printed. The framing date is a very good reference as to time of printing. I am not sure of value. The paper is beggining to yellow with age. This can be stopped by acquiring a spray can of Wei To # 10 spray used to nutralize the acid in the paper. It runs about $25.00 to $30.00 a can if you want to bother. You can look "Wei To" up on the net. It is used by the Smithsonian institue on paper items that need to be treated for acid content. It has been used on the original US Constitution and the copies of the Declaration of Independance to name a few items. So I figure it is pretty safe. Request the tape on how to use the stuff.It comes in liquid and spray forms.
Steve

just for your info, and you may already be aware, the company that framed the second picture, `boots` is a company still thriving on the `high street`. they are a health/beauty/ pharmacy type of business. and the company logo is still the same!.

Cranston fine arts, based in the uk, have a couple of similar articles to the Inkermann print being 1/ an original B/W photogravure of lady Butler's "Balaclava" (the return)and
2/ "The Roll Call" another original B/W photogravure, both at an unbelievable £900 each, mind you they have been up for sale for a good few years now!

Nolan

Thanks SteveRay thats some good info and i plan to follow up on your suggestion. I havent had much of a chance to do much research due to the fact my house is being built and everything is in storage! Also thanks to Blueboy and Mr. Nolan i was hoping somone from England would chime in. The good news is i got both of these prints for $65

Legion, for your interest, the troops depicted are the Coldstream Guards and the 20th East Devonshires, btw nice buy.

Nolan

Hi there

Just joined the forum so this is my first contribution.

The hat worn by the soldier in the photograph IMHO would date from around the end of the nineteenth to the start of the twentieth.

Sort of thing worn in the Boer War by irregular light cavalry - Yeomanry & Volunteers - bit like the Rough Riders.

Bournemouth & Salisbury are both in the county of Wiltshire so he could be a member of the
The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry

Hope this is of some interest/use

Thanks Richie and welcome to the forum! This does help, i hope to do more research once my house is finished and i can take everything out of storage!

this is from the CRIMEAN WAR INKERMAN BALAKLAVA
ETC great pieces to have survived and a great study of some not often seen uniforms of that period

PAUL