I'm cheekily reviving a post from last year because this puzzle is still unsolved! All suggestions very gratefully received.
I've added another cup to my lithophane collection. There's a problem, though: I don't know whom it depicts. The front of the cup has a monogram of JW and the dates 1870-1911, but I'm afraid that hasn't helped me much.Does anyone have any idea who this might be?
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Joseph Conrad, perhaps?
There is a resemblance, but the moustache doesn't seem quite right. Not sure how the initials/dates would fit in?
Both the initials/dates are an obvious problem...In mitigation, I can only suggest, that the chap in question looks an awfully lot older than 41.
The dates must relate to his career, I think, because I agree that he looks older than 41. It's a shame, because it makes lists of people born/buried in a particular year useless. I feel doomed never to find out the answer!
There has a post appeared on Facebook 22 Jan 2021 - Oldham Past and Present - which someone has posted this cup in her possession. A family member she mentions has a grandfather called James Wood, b abt 1841 who was a secretary of a spinning company and in 1891 a secretary of a Co-operative store. Could it possibly be to commemorate his retirement?
Thank you - that's an interesting lead to follow up!
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