Suggestions?
Take your pick from these present day Royal Yacht Clubs (which fit RCYC):
Cork; Cape; Cornwall; Canadian; Corinthian.
My own pick is Royal Clyde Yacht Club, which merged in 1978 with the Royal
Northern Yacht Club to form RNCYC (thus you will not find a current RCYC in
Scotland). There is some history provided at http://rncyc.com together with
contact details.
Shuna is just south of Oban - here http://tinyurl.com/a4jqd - in a truly
delightful part of Scotland with many many traces of civilzation dating back
to prehistory! Although it is on the west coast, and thus appears to be a
_very_ long way by sea from the Clyde, in fact it is about 10 miles from the
Crinan Canal, which avoids the need to sail 100 miles all around the Mull of
Kintyre, and makes the Clyde more easily accessible. The canal opened at
the beginning of the 19th century.
Hope that might help with some pieces of the jigsaw.
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Scott Gomez
Sent: 15 May 2005 19:34
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Suggestions needed for a photo copying effort
I have a copying job to do, and copy-work is entirely out of my ken. Any and
all suggestions are welcomed in hope of minimizing the potential problems
and achieving a good result.
The target is a tintype photo, dating from approximately 1890 (I'm guessing,
based on the photo's history). It's fairly typical in that it's approx.
2.75x3.25 inches and has been enclosed in a (non-removable) ornate brass
"case" having an oval aperture through which the tintype is displayed.
Thankfully, there's no glass involved. It's in reasonably good shape, but
has suffered some bending over the years and is therefore *not* flat.
I've got a collection of OM bodies (1n, 2n, 4, 4t) and a fair selection of
macro gear (bellows, various auto macro tubes, 50/3.5, 80/4 and 135/4 macros
lenses) and some flash gear to choose from. My primary goal here is to
reproduce the *photo*, without concern for including the frame.
I've got a lot of time to play with getting a good shot, as the tintype is
an old family photo recently passed down to me.
BTW, and semi-on-topic: I cannot stress enough how important it is to
accurately *label* at least one set of family photos. As the sort of
unofficial archivist/genealogist/historian for some of the far-flung
branches of my family, I'm faced with a number of real puzzles in
identifying the individuals in some photos, a job that would be infinitely
easier had I more to go on from even a crude attempt at labeling. This
humble tintype is an example... I've only a guess at who the gentleman
pictured may be, based on where the photo has been for the last century+.
With that in mind... Would anyone in the British Isles know where/what
"Shuna RCYC" may have been? It's embroidered in the pictured gentleman's
sweater and he looks a bit nautical, so I'm assuming it may be some sort of
yacht club or the like? I know that Shuna is an island off the coast of
Scotland, and also that a collier named "Shuna" was wrecked off the Scottish
coast ca. 1913, but beyond that have had no luck in internet searches. My
only real knowledge, so far, of the photo's provenance is that it came down
to me via my grandmother's family, which should place its origin somewhere
between ca. 1860 and about 1910 (and as earlier mentioned, more likely
around 1890, I think), most probably on the Kintyre peninsula (lots of
family from the Campbeltown area) and less probably in the vicinity of
Glasgow.
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Scott Gomez
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