faces in the news, c. 1919

[15_the_circle]

this illustrated newspaper fragment was recovered from the S wall a couple of days ago. 

(click through this thumbnail for higher resolution image)

 
surely it is a likeness of Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France. 

(image gacked from firstworldwar.com)

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p.s.	since posting this I realised that when this newspaper was printed my grandfather would have been about the age my son is now, and that my great grandfather would have been about the age I am now.

Comments

[collpepper.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh my!! What a find! And the photo is exactly like the newspaper clipping. Your wall's are a talking!!

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

they are indeed, or they would if I could find a way to deal with the medium.  the folded and wadded paper is quite brittle and I know better than to just take it in my hands to try to open it all up.  rather than smoothing out it would just flake into a powder. 

[karenleigh.livejournal.com]

What a great find! He's beautiful!

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

there's more: at least one more page has fragments of another illustration, but it's all too tightly wadded up to make any of it out. 

[neat-and-pretty.livejournal.com]

Hiya

I love old newspapers and we did find some here in the attic when we moved in dated 1942.

Pat sprayed the brittle pages with silicone wax that he uses to polish the car with. Leaving the pages to dry after spraying means that you can then handle them without damaging them.

I have also used starch spray that you use for ironing shirt collars and that works quite well if you dont saturate the paper too much. Always leave to dry before trying to handle them.

Amway used to sell a solution in a spray can that made paper waterproof. I remember the demonstrations as a girl in the 1980's being done where the paper would be sprayed then dried, placed over someone's head and a glass of water poured over the top and the water just ran off. After a quick shake of the excess the newspaper was still dry. Amazing. Dont know if they still sell that stuff or not but it was fab. We used to use it at home for all kinds of things back then.

Try the spray silicone or spray car wax. That will be easy for you to get hold of.

Cant wait to see what else is in the papers. This is very exciting a find :)

Helen x