Digging around on an old hard drive under what appeared to be 100 years of dust and grime some interesting old pictures turned up. It is pretty certain that Great-great grandfather didn’t actually take them (although who knows?) so they were not bequeathed in a will. In fact the exact origins are unknown. A good many were found on a Brazilian vintage erotica blog about two or three years back and the rest have been there even longer. Some of these have been seen before, although as with the ones above, appear to be from a series.
The quality is very variable and some pains have been taken to clean them up. At least eight were somebody’s scans (several were over a thousand pixels across and far too large for usual web publication).
One or two have archive marks denoting a museum collection from about 70 years ago, but most are un-watermarked. No identifying information has been deleted.
Most of the pictures are Edwardian, although some may date from the late Victorian period and one or two are perhaps as recent as the 1920s. Whether or not they were ever included in a ‘what-the-butler-saw’ machine is open to doubt although the first two appear to be consecutive.
Make of them what you will. They will be published in three parts during this coming week.
