The genuine article

Owing to the current interest in making new images look old, I thought you might like to see an old image looking new.
A few years ago a friend presented me with a box of about 30 glass plates and asked if I could recover them. He found them in a cold frame in his fathers garden and knew they were of his family. He was dying to find out what was on them. I photographed them and spent ages cloning out the spots and mildew. This is one of the better ones from early 1900's.