Great-Grandfathers Pipe Picture - Found!

[weezell]

Honorary Forums members all.

Nice thought mso489!...

 

[davet]

Nice thought mso489!...

+1, Just imagine the stories they could share. . .

 

[jmatt]

Am I the only one who thinks Al must be related to Ditka? That's clearly Ditka's grandfather.

 

[philobeddoe]

Very cool pics gentleman.

 

[tuold]

I love looking at all the old photographs. Ya know it's not too difficult these days to restore those images.
Orely,
When I saw your grandfather's pipe I thought it might be an old LHS with an ambroid stem like the one in this photo:

Could be a Yello Bole too though.

 

[napulitano215]

Pictures like that are wonderful I love this thread what nice pics! I have some of my grandfather and great grandfather (Italy) I just got more pipes from dad that belonged to my great grandfather. Gonna send them to get cleaned up will post pics once complete.

 

[tuold]

ssjones, I hope I'm not out of line by posting another copy of your pipe picture. It just kills me to see a torn, treasured photograph. If I had time I'd get down to the pixel level and make it look a lot better. As long as you don't enlarge this I think it's an improvement.(Or at least an alternative view)

 

[lonestar]

Very very cool pictures ! I've only seen a few pictures of my Grandfathers. No smoking pics although my Mothers Father was a pipe smoker.

 

[seagullplayer]

Love it!

 

[jvnshr]

all of those are really nice to see.

 

[jpmcwjr]

@tuold. Oh, hell yeah! Nice work.

 

[okiescout]

Al, I am so pleased with all the contributions you have made that you could recover such a treasured slice of family history. Photography has been such a blessing to so many people.

 

[fearsclave]

Contributing to the hijacking... my grandfather, Richard James White, at Mont Avila, Quebec, sometime in the 1940s. The pipe is probably a Blatter & Blatter.

 

[ssjones]

Yikes - I forgot to add this thread as a favorite!
@tuold, that is amazing work - how did you do that? The photo is not even a scanned copy, but a picture taken by my camera phone. Could you email me a corrected copy?

 

[tuold]

ssjones,
PM sent

 

[sablebrush52]

Al,
What a wonderful find! That's a true treasure.
Tuold,
Excellent job on the restoration! As a Photoshop guru with 24 years of production experience in image restoration, manipulation and digital painting, I'm mightily impressed with your skills!

 

[ssjones]

@tuold : I echo sable's comments - I had an old copy of Photoshop and never mastered it. I don't have it on my new laptop. I grabbed a copy you had in your folder, thanks so much!

 

[tuold]

Gentleman, Thanks for the complements. I'm not a Photoshop power user by any standard, but I did manage to learn a few things after inheriting all of my dad's family photos. Just takes time and patience.
Though my grandfather smoked a pipe all through his adult life, I searched through all of my family photos and couldn't find one of him with a pipe. You guys are lucky!

 

[ghoststone]

Those are great photos. Thank you for sharing them.

 

[ssjones]

Here's an update:

At the end of this year, I finally got around to scanning the picture and member tuold kindly reworked it for me. I had actually found another picture as well (no pipe).
In review with my mother and father, the gentleman with the pipe turns out to be my great-great grandfather (he was my fathers Grandfather, not father).
From these higher resolution photos, doctored by tuold, I had prints made for everyone in the family and each rec'd a pair for Christmas.
Thanks tuold for your time and help!