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Thank you for your contributions, Humpty Dumpty, they are greatly appreciated!
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Very good observations, Humpty. Maybe we ought to be looking towards the upper Midwest for the location of the culprits. City folks for sure. Immigrants?
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To me the dog most looks like an English Setter. The Putin looking guy (second from right) has a sidelever shotgun.
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By the way, it seems that first rubber boots users has lived in France and Australia. Time was 1860`s.
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I still think it likely to just be a number of stage props; whatever the photographer had sourced, and probable that none of them were hunters at all. People today still dress up in period costume and have their pictures taken with painted backgrounds and then usually produced in sepia tones. It is obviously a studio photo of some sort. If authentic I think it would have been pictured in the field. Lagopus.....
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By the way, it seems that first rubber boots users has lived in France and Australia. Time was 1860`s. Thank you, that is interesting. SRH
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From ehow.com: Rubber overshoes originated in South America and Wellingtons come from England. The most notable advances in the production of rubber boots, however, occurred in the United States. The vulcanization technique invented by Charles Goodyear was the most significant advancement in rubber history. In 1847, the rubber boot trade was centralized in Rhode Island and Connecticut; by World War I, the functionality of rubber boots caused production to spread worldwide. Read more: http://www.ehow.com/about_5127251_history-rubber-boots.html#ixzz2h3cOT42N
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Looks to me like the guy on the left may have a glass right eye.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_bootWellington boots were at first made of leather. However in 1852 Hiram Hutchinson met Charles Goodyear, who had just invented the vulcanization process for natural rubber. While Goodyear decided to manufacture tyres, Hutchinson bought the patent to manufacture footwear and moved to France to establish Ŕ l'Aigle ("to the Eagle") in 1853, to honour his home country. The company today is simply called "AIGLE", "Eagle"). In a country where 95% of the population were working on fields with wooden clogs as they had been for generations, the introduction of the wholly waterproof, Wellington-type rubber boot became an instant success: farmers would be able to come back home with clean, dry feet.
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I believe "hunters" #2 and #4 are wearing leather gaiters (Knee length leggings). I suspect the guns and accoutrements are not props but their own belongings. Incidently, were cartridge belts frequently used in Europe? Certainly were here. Main reason bottom of so many vintage buttstocks are so beat up.
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