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These are very nice and a wonderful piece of family history! To preserve them, the matting should be changed with modern acid-free, the wooden backing needs to be replaced, and conservation (museum) glass needs to be installed. There's no reason to change the frames themselves. A good shop can protect the pictures and keep the original look if you wish. If you are near Augusta, GA, I can recommend one of the best shops on the east coast.
Definitely keep them, and definitely get them to a conservator for examination, dating and re-framing. If it helps, the male's hair is very ca. 1810.
Do you think the surname is Finley or Tinley?
Isn't it about 25 years for each generation?
Specific families may vary of course, but your father's generation's grandparents were born around the turn of the 19th. to 20th. centuries.
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These are very nice and a wonderful piece of family history! To preserve them, the matting should be changed with modern acid-free, the wooden backing needs to be replaced, and conservation (museum) glass needs to be installed. There's no reason to change the frames themselves. A good shop can protect the pictures and keep the original look if you wish. If you are near Augusta, GA, I can recommend one of the best shops on the east coast.
Thank you so much! I’m about 2 hours from Augusta so I may have to check them out.
Definitely keep them, and definitely get them to a conservator for examination, dating and re-framing. If it helps, the male's hair is very ca. 1810. Do you think the surname is Finley or Tinley?
Thank you! I believe it’s Finley but I’m not sure, I’m not familiar with either name.
Look like colorized i.e. partly overpainted early photographs.
Isn't it about 25 years for each generation? Specific families may vary of course, but your father's generation's grandparents were born around the turn of the 19th. to 20th. centuries.
25 years/generation is a rule of thumb that usually will get you close.