Featured Deciphering Help: Tintype 2

Oh darn I meant to type Park instead of Lake!

I should just stop trying to id anything, my poor brain suffers early death and my eyesight's going too! :/

 

.........I think a lot of us, have that goin on...!!!

 

We do.

 

A striped workman's shirt. The photographer gave him one of those white shirtfronts to look good on the photo. He went from blue collar to white collar in a minute.
I would have preferred to see the shirt all the way, but that's the way it was with studio portraits.

 

Good catch on noticing the striped cuffs and small amount of sleeves showing from under the jacket. I've heard of that sort of dressing up but have never noticed it in any of my photos. I should go back and look!

 

Thanks, Fig. It comes from looking too much at Dutch costumes, like these from the fishing village of Spakenburg:

 

Oh, of course! White shirt front makes perfect sense for why the sleeve material can't be seen at the top of the jacket.

 

I think you are on to something -- I had not noticed his funky e, but it looks like ... yeah, I think it is "heney"

 

...oy... I think Mr. Heney may end up on the auction block. Don't think I have enough info to reunite him with any confidence at all, at all.

 

If that letter between n and y were an e, wouldn't the earlier e have been made the same way? Just sayin'. Although I do see now that the e in James is the same style.

 

It may be the way he made an "e" when it was mid-stroke vs a start stroke.

But it's of little matter at this stage. Not enough facts in evidence to make a sound call on this one.

 

I'm pretty sure that's what it says, but I AM playing with it!!
EDIT:

@Jivvy, OK.....best I can do....last name.....take your pick....could be a script 'r' or even 'me'.....I can't always repeat what I do in Photoshop and Topaz either..... grrrrrr.....it's fiddle and adjust.....

 

Excellent job cleaning that up -- very impressive!

Unfortunately, I don't think it changes his fate.

I have a few other tintypes that I also need to pass on to a collector of tintypes, Mr Henry/Heney has joined them.

 

@Aquitaine
Thank you

If you notice the "r" in Parkhurst it's not the same. I think I is Heney. Googling came up with that name in Canada.


@Bakersgma
I write with a mixture of cursive and printing. I often mix the capitals in with lower case as well. My handwriting is a mess! !

 

Or Hewey... I can't tell.

 

I do agree that "Heney" is the better read -- I am convinced you're correct.

But the problem isn't finding one person that fits the existing data, it's finding multiples. I've not been able to pin anyone down to Parkhurst, but I've got multiple age-appropriate James Heneys and henrys (and now heweys, lols). All with Canada connections. All within an appropriate age range.

Mix that in with "you can betcha there are transcription errors on this surname" and, unless there's another picture of him out there, it's pretty much a guessing game.

 

Just out of curiosity, has anyone run a check on a James M. Hemey?? I do see a faint line before that final 'e', attached to the end of what everyone's calling an 'n'........call me picky..... Or even throw in what Fig added - 'Hewey!!!! Whoever's doing the checking.....might be just the name that hits a BIG WIN!!!!!

 

I googled and did not come up with any surnames of Hemey.
I did come up with Hewey, but not a James.

 

The problem is multiple names that hit the big win -- too many names to narrow it down.

 

My .02...the "e" after the "H" doesn't match the "e" in James, or before the "y". Could the last name be "Huwey" or "Huvey"?