The Britisher found old photos inside purchased at the flea market box
Network users decided to learn more about these photos.
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70-year-old artist Greg Peck of the English of Essex made an unusual acquisition, which has interested many people worldwide. The fact that at the flea market Peck bought an old wooden box, inside of which discovered glass plate negatives of photographs taken in the early twentieth century.
My dad was at a boot sale recently and saw this battered old box. He is a fan of boxes, and boxes are made to be opened, so he did what most of us would do and peeked inside. pic.twitter.com/9pg3revsLF
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
This is what he found… pic.twitter.com/N0LGFVYCtg
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
Much to the surprise of the British, the negatives were fine, but had to fade. The man took a picture of the image with the plates on my phone, and then turned them into familiar images. So it became clear that the photographs depicted family: parents, children and older relatives.
They are old glass photographic plates. Negatives. When he held one up to the light he saw this. pic.twitter.com/OuYnP2uMTx
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
Became this… pic.twitter.com/jO0zEbBQFM
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
And here are the rest… pic.twitter.com/8tawiNMLjb
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
In addition, at the bottom of the box was found a note with the name of different places, which were written in English and French.
Here is the list that was pasted into the lid of the box. All in English but with some French place names mentioned, we think. Could have been holiday photographs? Presumably a reasonably well-off family if so? Would love to find out more about them. Or even just date them. pic.twitter.com/sQzw4RhHtH
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
These pictures were posted on Twitter the son of Greg Scott Peck. Just a day his post with a mysterious discovery has attracted the attention of more than one hundred thousand people. Users even decided to conduct its own investigation. Some began to search for places notes, other studied items and objects in the photo.
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— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
In the course of mapping all the detected factors, it became clear that the pictures were taken in England and they depict an English family.
The uniform of the soldier and the woman’s dress users also determine the period when they were made photo — from 1903 to 1914. The investigation is ongoing.
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— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
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— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
And this is the last one. pic.twitter.com/Yi4XTTGqdV
— Scott Pack (@meandmybigmouth) August 20, 2018
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