The featured image is the Belgian enamelled coin I spoke about yesterday, the one I couldn’t show as I’d left my camera at work.
They heyday of the enamelled coin in the UK was 1887, and many of the coins you see were ones with the 1887 Jubilee head of Queen Victoria. That’s why so many enamelled Georgian coins are worn – they were old when they were done. Most of the Jubilee head coins are in good condition as they were taken directly from the bank to the enameller’s workshop. It’s an interesting subject that I would like to know more about. That, to be fair, is something that could be said of many subjects. This is a paragraph I just rescued from yesterday’s draft, which I am about to delete – I try not to add things after publishing but in this case it’s something I should have covered, and forgot.
Today I had even more camera problems. It started with me thinking it was an eBay problem, which it sometimes is. However, it looks like there’s a problem with my camera card. I have a situation where I take photos but they don’t show up on my card. Other photos show up, ones I thought I’d previously moved or deleted. After a certain amount of switching on and off and trying cables and card readers, it occurred to me that I’d just taken five pictures of a tiger medallion and five pictures of a 1938 cricket giveaway had appeared on the card. What, I asked myself, if those five pictures of 1930s cricketers turned out to be my tiger photos.
It’s a bit of a stretch, I know, but by that time, having done everything I could think of, including clearing my cache, I was at the end of my tether. As I dragged the first photo, Don Bradman changed into a tiger. Very strange.
Haven’t a clue what is happening but it must be a card or camera fault. I will try to narrow it down tomorrow. Meanwhile, here is another shot of the coin with a different background. Generally I find the blue is better when taking pictures for eBay but the black is sometimes better when photographing things as a record.
Enamelled coin – nice rare example.
Learning from last night, I have answered comments and am about to post. Then I am going to watch Pointless and plan some poetry. Tim to get a grip.
Now, I’d never heard of enamelled coins before, let alone seen one!
Not everyone can have the life of a junk shop proprietor… 🙂
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How very frustrating
I think I may be past the part with the problem, but it means I can’t delete anything without losing track of the dead cells. Fortunately, cards are not expensive these days.
I had a similar problem years back, and it was the card. I created it by accidentally deleting the files on the camera via the computer. They were “gone” as far as I could tell from camera or computer, but the space remained “used” to the camera.
Yes, I may have to empty or retire the card and see what happens.
Bizarre. Where do you name your pictures? On the camera on on your computer?
I don’t name them. They just have the number that the camera gives them and I drag and drop or press the eBay button. There seems to be a block of ten photos where this happens and they are now back to how they should be. Will try another card as it looks like I have a corrupted spot on the card. Will have to look it up on Google.
I have never come across anything like it. Good luck.
Nor me. 🙁