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Peckris 2

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  4. Posted

    7 hours ago, Madness said:

    My reason for this post is to ask for help with the photo editing.  I've found a free alternative to Photoshop called "GIMP".  Is anyone familiar enough with this to help me work out how to use it?  Additionally, can anyone see any problems with the method I've proposed?

    The good news:

    The GIMP is a powerful open-source photo editor - not as powerful as Photoshop but it has a lot to offer.

    The bad news:

    It doesn't follow the more or less common standards that photo editors employ. It's a steep learning curve, though if you haven't done much or any graphics editing, you won't need to 'unlearn' existing standards first.

    https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

     

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    35 minutes ago, Sword said:

    I am fine with the JH portrait and sometimes wonder why it was so unpopular compared to the OH. If it was about the crown being so small, then Victoria did wear a small crown. The YH is a really nice portrait and a hard act to follow. Do you think the OH would also have been unpopular if it immediately followed the YH?

    Yes it was the crown apparently. There is an early bronze pattern for the JH (in Peck) where she is wearing a heavy tiara, but she favoured the small crown which was lighter for a long sitting.

    I once did a Photoshop mock up to show how Boehme's portrait would have looked without a crown:

    446592165_JH22artistsimpression22(forpredecimal).jpg.efbb984ec99850b13d0781149cdef2ca.jpg

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    40 minutes ago, craigy said:

    One explanation is that the Mint simply ran out of time. A firm deadline had been set for the issue of the new coins, in June 1887 and, given the enormous amount of work that attended the preparation of tools for all the gold and silver denominations, it is not surprising that the Mint had to abandon any thought of also including bronze

    They could have done as with the Old Head, and introduced the bronze 2 years after gold and silver i.e. in 1889. I suspect that the JH was already deeply unpopular by then so they abandoned the idea? Also, I suppose, the last iteration of the bun head was already 'aged' compared to the YH silver so there was less urgency.

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    On 19 June 2018 at 9:18 PM, UPINSMOKE said:

    Another added to the collection. Not the best condition but Victoria 1886 my earliest one so far. The search still goes on from more of these. If anyone has any or finds any please let me know I am always interested in acquiring more:D

    1886 Victoria Encased Farthing Comedy by Pathe Rev 400.jpg1886 Victoria Encased Farthing Comedy by Pathe Obv 400.jpg

     

    How very retro of Dire Straits...

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  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, Madness said:

    Just want to make it clear that I didn't "discover" the overstrike.  I saw the DNW auction listing, was interested and decided to investigate further at the suggestion of @Peckris 2.  Just wanted to verify that it was a genuine overstrike, determine how rare it was and try to work out how much it was really worth.  This hobby is teaching me to be less trusting of people.  Hmm.  Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

    Oh, you can trust me... :lol:

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  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, Michael-Roo said:

    I love Bowie's early work. The Deram/Anthony Newley years, much underrated. 

    He was guilty of knocking out one or two absolute stinkers during that period though. How about this demo. He never bothered to develop the song further himself (thank god) but, astonishingly, it was picked up and recorded by a group called Oscar, fronted by Paul 'Dancing With The Captain' Nicholas.

    To think.. Reaction was the home of Cream and The Who. :o

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     It's easy enough to do, using something like Excel - just have column headings for e.g. denomination, date, condition, variety, perhaps reign, date acquired, where from, price paid, and you can always add more column headings later. You could have a separate worksheet for pictures.

    To sort by any criterion, you'd just click that column heading, and Bob's your mum's brother.

    I don't know of any particular app (I created my own bespoke solution using a database manager) but post again in the relevant forum, e.g. Free For All and I'm sure someone will help.

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    11 minutes ago, mrbadexample said:

    If you get chance Mike, it's worth listening to the live auction.

    The auctioneer would refer to your £2000 bid as "with me" until the bidding exceeded your amount, then it would be "in the room" or "on the internet" etc.

    Yes, that's right. The auctioneer would open - if he had a bid on the books - at the reserve or estimate. Then if there were bids in the room, the auctioneer would raise (often by pointing at his book) with the next highest bid. If the room cleared what was on the book he would say something like "I'm out" and point to the overbidder.

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  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, secret santa said:

    I think we're getting there although there will always be a degree of subjectivity as we can never truly know what was in the mind of the "designer" even if it seems obvious.

    Yes. Getting back to the 1926ME (I hear your groans from here...) - many millions of halfpennies, farthings, and the 1927 penny saw the introduction of the ME obverse on bronze together with a modified reverse. Just because there are maybe 100k (give or take) 1926ME pennies with old reverse that completed what MAY have been an emergency issue of pennies, doesn't prove anything about what the original design intent was .. or wasn't. I personally think there is enough evidence that a modified reverse was the intent, but circumstances proved it impractical for the end of the 1926 penny run.

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