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Locate a postcard in England : Keswick ?

  • br33
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    Hello,

    I try to locate this postcard in England.

    On the back :
    Post card
    Pettitt's prize medal series, Keswick Copyright

    It seams to be a montain area : Wales ?

    Thanks for your help,

    Hello from Bordeaux !
    Michel
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  • xtf70
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    United Kingdom

    Hello,

    I try to locate this postcard in England.

    On the back :
    Post card
    Pettitt's prize medal series, Keswick Copyright

    It seams to be a montain area : Wales ?

    Thanks for your help,

    Hello from Bordeaux !
    Michel
    • Created on Nov 13, 2011 at 11:53 PM
    • #357983
    Pettitt was a very local photographer so the picture is almost certainly somewhere in the English lake District, definitely not Wales

    I'm not certain of the village shown, as many Lakeland villages look like this, and I have yet to find a reference to the picture number in the corner
  • br33
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    82 messages

    France

    Pettitt was a very local photographer so the picture is almost certainly somewhere in the English lake District, definitely not Wales

    I'm not certain of the village shown, as many Lakeland villages look like this, and I have yet to find a reference to the picture number in the corner
    • Created on Nov 14, 2011 at 1:15 AM
    • #357988
    Thanks for this first and quick response !
    Yhe number in the corner of the postcard is 486 .
    I was surprise by the quality of the picture and the printing . Wich date ?
    friendly,
    Michel
  • xtf70
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    United Kingdom

    Thanks for this first and quick response !
    Yhe number in the corner of the postcard is 486 .
    I was surprise by the quality of the picture and the printing . Wich date ?
    friendly,
    Michel
    • Created on Nov 14, 2011 at 1:37 AM
    • #357990
    Pettitt was active from the early 1900s and through the 1920s but I don't know when he stopped producing

    The camera used was probably a plate or half-plate camera with glass negatives - very slow, long exposure giving really good quality images, and of course the size of the plate means that postcards are practically contact-size prints rather than enlargements

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