A few nice Sleuths images I found:
Paper cover on cabinet card by George Renwick
Image by whatsthatpicture
An unusual and intact printed thin paper cover on a cabinet card by George Renwick, Burton on Trent
This image, and others in the set, have been featured on Brett Payne's wonderful Photo-Sleuth blog - see photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/2009/05/scottish-family-in-staf...
The mirror crack'd
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I’m not entirely sure how the mirror came to broken (i.e. I’m not the one with seven years bad luck!) but as soon as it was brought in for us to evaluate exactly what we could do it I knew there was something just crying out to be put on there. We could not try and hide the huge crack running across it as it would then look even worse than it did already so we thought the best thing to do was to highlight it’s imperfections.
The line ‘the mirror crack’d’ was floating around in my head and it turns out ‘The mirror crack’d from side to side‘ is the name of an Agatha Christie book starring the unflappable amateur sleuth Miss Marple but she originally got the line from a poem by Lord Tennyson called The Lady of Shallot and it seemed to fit perfectly:
“Out flew the web and floated wide
the mirror crack’d from side to sideâ€
Once we’d found a suitable font, cut a couple of stencils and also got a couple of lightly glittered arrows on there to really put all the attention on the crack we realised that we had job done and to do any more would risk ruining it so we decided it was time to down tools. I’m particularly happy with the result as i managed to restrain myself before adding more and in hindsight it just fits perfectly. One more happy punter taken care of…
For reasons that are hopefully completely apparent it’s pretty tricky to photograph a mirror whilst: a) trying to make the mirror look relatively normal shaped b) trying not to get yourself or any other objects that just attract the eye in shot c) trying to highlight the big crack running across the mirror and the text either side of it. Now whilst i’m certainly not saying that Duffy, Donovan or Bailey couldn’t do better I think I did a pretty reasonable job considering my usual level of skill with a camera.
Cheers
id-iom
Title: The mirror crack'd
Media: Hand cut stencils, spray paint and glitter
Size: Large ornate mirror
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