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Man Finds 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Inside Old Box He Buys For £4, Son ‘Develops’ Them Using Photoshop
Rummaging through old artifacts at an antique sale can make you feel like an archeologist on a dig and every now and then you come across a true commodity. Well, that’s what happened to Greg Pack, 70, in Essex, England.
The elderly man was at a boot sale, searching for old clocks and came across a battered old box. His son, publisher Scott Patrick, tweeted the entire account of what happened next. Inside the mystery box were 100-year-old glass negatives, that piqued the interest of his father. Pack senior, a retired graphics artist, told ITV News that he had been, “working in print years ago,” and explained, “I used to work with negatives and these looked quite good.”
However, according to the former artist glass negatives fade quite easily, using a mixture of his photo knowledge and modern technology he found a way to restore the photos back to their former glory. Scroll down below to see how he revived these images!
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Retired graphics artist, Greg Pack came across this mystery box at a boot sale in Essex
Inside he found some interesting relics, and his son tweeted out the whole discovery
Along with the photos they found some clues about the family and asked Twitter to do some detective work
People in the comments were more than happy to contribute their knowledge and share their own artifact stories
Based on the photos, people were saying they were more than 100 years old
What do you think ?
Dowbo 6 years ago
"would love to find out more about them. Or even just date them" Reckon they'll be dead or in their hundreds.... bit old for the dating scene!
diane a 6 years ago
Love old pictures - have loads including negatives - but no glass ones unfortunately, Oldest one I have has been dated by a military museum to around 1860 - fascinating
diane a 6 years ago
The museum dated it by the uniform and canon designs artillery-...acba95.jpg 
fruit_panda 6 years ago
Umm...Château Connerie was surely not the actual name. It means "F**k-up castle"
Dowbo 6 years ago
"would love to find out more about them. Or even just date them" Reckon they'll be dead or in their hundreds.... bit old for the dating scene!
diane a 6 years ago
Love old pictures - have loads including negatives - but no glass ones unfortunately, Oldest one I have has been dated by a military museum to around 1860 - fascinating
diane a 6 years ago
The museum dated it by the uniform and canon designs artillery-...acba95.jpg
fruit_panda 6 years ago
Umm...Château Connerie was surely not the actual name. It means "F**k-up castle"
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