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The Descendants of Ernest Cornelius Harnack

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:18:21 -0800

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Ernest Cornelius was a tailor by trade and his sons and grandsons followed the same trade.

Here are some records from London Street directories for the 1820s

Robsons Direcory 1820.Harnack.E.C. Tailor 28, Pitfield Street, Hoxton

Underhills Triennial Directory 1823/4 Harnack E. C. ( Tailor and Habit Maker) 28, Pitfield Street, Hoxton

Robsons London Commercial Directory 1828/9 Harnack,E. Pitfield Street, Hoxton

Ernest Cornelius Harnack

Death

1845

June Quarter

Strand

I 283

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The Music Trade in London

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:05:00 -0700

Lucy Inglis has made this post. The book looks like a must...

http://www.georgianlondon.com/book-review-the-music-trade-in-georgian-londo

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Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:25:00 -0700

The Erard Grecian at Lacock Abbey.
The second hand bookshop at Lacock is raising money to have this delightful little harp restored. It was very interesting to see this particular harp because it wasmade by Erard in Great Marlborough Street circa 1810. This was around the period Christian Haarnack was working at Erards as their chief mechanic. His son Henry went on to found the Haarnack business which ran until 1926.

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Dave Hollis,

Assistant House Steward at

Lacock Abbey

wrote:

Dear Moira

Many thanks for the info about the 'Grecian Harp' in the South Gallery at Lacock Abbey.

I did what you said and e-mailed the Royal College of Music with the serial number and recieved this information:

Thank you for your enquiry. Yes, we do have the ledgers of the London Erard harp manufactory. Our new intern has looked up the information and finds that the instrument, a double harp, was purchased by W. Fitzpatrick, South Mall, Cork, Ireland, on 20 September 1813. It was later repaired for Madam Petit on 24 November 1856, which cost 4 guineas.

Thanks again

Dave Hollis

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An Exhibition of Harps at Palais Lascaris in Nice

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:55:44 -0700

Expositions

"Erard et l’invention de la harpe moderne 1811-2011" - du 13 mai au 17 octobre 2011
Exposition consacrée à l'invention, par Sébastien Erard, de la harpe à double mouvement.
Cette exposition, qui sera présentée du 12 mai au 17 octobre dans les salles du premier étage du musée, est l'unique évènement annoncé pour 2011 commémorant cette invention technique importante pour l'histoire de la harpe et qui fait encore autorité dans la fabrication moderne de cet instrument.
Plusieurs pièces prestigieuses figureront au sein de cette exposition, telles la harpe "à 14 pédales" de Georges Cousineau (1782), la première harpe de Sébastien Erard (1786), des harpes provenant du Muséo Salvi (Italie), de l'Institut de France, de diverses collections particulières et notamment du fonds Gaveau -Erard-Pleyel déposé en 2009 au palais Lascaris par la Société AXA.
Evènements associés : concerts
- le 13 mai à 20h à la Chapelle de la Miséricorde, concert de Sylvain BLASSEL, harpe Erard (en partenariat avec ’’Les amis de la Harpe’’)
15 € et 10 € pour les membres des Amis de la Harpe et étudiants, gratuit pour les enfants de moins de 12 ans.
- le 18 juin à 16h au Palais Lascaris, Duo Sébastien Erard (Virginie Tarrête, harpe Erard et Alain Roudier, pianoforte Erard).
Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
- le 8 octobre à 16h au Palais Lascaris, Concert: "Autour de la harpe de Naderman du Palais Lascaris" Maria Christina Cleary, harpe. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
et pour clôturer l’année Erard et l’invention de la harpe moderne
- 2 décembre à 20h30 concert à l'Auditorium du CNRR de Nice:
Kikta "La luce delle tacite stelle" pour choeur mixte, soprano, baryton et sextuor de harpes,
Andrès "Un prince oriental" pour soprano baryton choeur mixte, flûte, hautbois, contrebasse et sextuor de harpes.
Ensemble Vocalita, dirigé par Jacques Maes. Entrée libre. En partenariat avec l'association des Amis de la Harpe."
Téléchargez le catalogue Erard :

catalogue erard.pdf 2,76 MB

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Georgian Cabinet Makers c. 1700-1800

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:54:49 -0800

A new and revised edition

Ralph Edwards and Margaret Joudain

MCMLV

LESSER-KNOWN AND MINOR CABINET-MAKERS

PETER LANGLOIS

Worked in England,

circa 1760—70

THE first recorded reference to this maker occurs in the accounts for refurnishing Woburn Abbey for the third Duke of Bedford, a payment to him of /378. 8s. ‘for a large inlaid commode table’ being entered in December 1760.1 Langlois’ name also occurs in the Description of Horace Walpole’s villa at Strawberry Hill, where on the writing table in the breakfast-room was ‘an inlaid writing box by Langlois. Walpole bought from him in 1763 ‘two commodes and two coins’ (encoignures) for the gallery. On March 21 of that year Caroline, first Lady Holland, writes from London to her sister, Emily, Countess of Kildare, about a present of furniture for a third sister, Lady Louisa Connolly, ‘I hear she like L’Anglay’s inlaid things very much, and I should wish to send her something that might suit some of her rooms, whether commode table, bureau or coins, which to be sure one might vulgarly call corner cupboards; but really they are lovely and finish a room so well. I have two beauties in the salon at Holland House’.²The first Duchess of Northumberland notes in her memorandum book the purchase of ‘a table inlaid wood by Langlois’, which is probably one of the card tables with inlaid tops at Syon House.³George Montague writes to Horace Walpole on March 12, 1766: ‘I will take my corporal oath that three parts of the japan you gave Langlois to make into commodes is still there, and so will Mr. Chute. He carried me to see his things, and there it was flowing about the rooms in panells and on the staircase; ‘tis a burning shame.’ In his trade card Langlois gives his address as Tottenham Court Road and states that he ‘makes all sorts of fine cabinets and commodes made and inlaid in the politest manner with brass and tortoiseshell, and likewise all rich ornamental clock cases and inlaid work mended with great care. Branch chandeliers and lanthorns in brass at the lowest prices The advertisement is printed in French and English, indicating that he sought to obtain a market in the country of his origin (Plate 227).

Peter Langlois, it is stated in Mortimer’s Universal Director (1763), ‘performs all sorts of curious inlaid work, particularly commodes in the foreign taste, inlaid with tortoiseshell, brass, etc.’ This notice shows that, like Gerreit Jensen (q.v.) at an earlier date he worked in a metal technique based on the practice of Andre Charles Boulle. He is possibly the Pierre— Eloi Langlois (1735—1803), who became a maitre-menusier in 1773 and apparently worked in Paris for the remainder of his life.³

1 Family Background, G. Scott Thomson, 1949, p. 53.

2 Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster, edited by Brian Fitzgerald, Irish MSS. Commission, Vol. I,

‘949.

There is a pair of inlaid pier tables and a set of painted and gilt furniture, c. 1770 and certainly by the same maker, at Audley End.

See also F. de Salverte, Les Ehe’nistes du XVIIIe Siecle, 1934.

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Re Daniel Justin Langlois

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:03:00 -0700

Daniel Justin Langlois

Henry Haarnack chose to be married in 1834 at Holy Trinity - one of the brand new fashionable Waterloo churches at the corner of Regent's Park.

The page in the church register for Holy Trinity show that one of their witnesses -was Daniel Justin Langlois.
The Best Man is usually the groom' friend and in this case, he was probably a workmate.
Subsequent research in the 1881 census revealed that Daniel Justin was also a harp maker.

I believe that he was a descendant of the famous cabinet -maker:-Langlois, Pierre (1759--81).

Langlois was working in London by 1759 and the earliest reference to him is a bill, dated 13 April 1759 in the accounts of the Dukes of Bedford, for a fire-screen.

In Thomas Mortimer's Universal Director (London, 1763) he is described as producing '...all sorts of curious inlaid work, particularly commodes in the foreign taste, inlaid with tortoiseshell, brass, etc.Langlois made a marquetry commode (1760; Woburn Abbey, Beds) for John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710--71), and another (1764; New York, Met.) for George William, 6th Earl of Coventry (1722--1809). Horace William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, bought two commodes from Langlois, and Caroline, Lady Holland (1723--74)---who already owned two case pieces by him---commissioned from Langlois either a commode or a pair of corner cupboards as a present for her sister Lady Louisa Conolly (1743--1821).

His trade card, printed in both French and English, lists some of the other types of furniture he made: clockcases, corner cabinets and secretaires. Until 1781 Langlois paid rates on his shop, but after 1766 there are few other references to him.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. Thornton and W. Reider: 'Pierre Langlois, ebeniste', Connoisseur, clxxviii (1971), pp. 283--8; clxxix (1972), pp. 105--12, 176--87, 257--65; clxxx (1972), pp. 30--35
G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds: Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660--1840 (Leeds, 1986) N
Georgian Cabinet Makers
c. 1700-1800
Georgian Cabinet Makers A new and revised edition
by
Ralph Edwards and Margaret Joudain MCMLV
LESSER-KNOWN AND MINOR CABINET-MAKERS
PETER LANGLOIS Worked in England,
circa 1760-70
The first recorded reference to this maker occurs in the accounts for refurnishing Woburn Abbey for the third Duke of Bedford, a payment to him of /378. 8s. 'for a large inlaid commode table' being entered in December 1760.1 Langlois' name also occurs in the Description of Horace Walpole's villa at Strawberry Hill, where on the writing table in the breakfast-room was 'an inlaid writing box by Langlois. Walpole bought from him in 1763 'two commodes and two coins' (encoignures) for the gallery. On March 21 of that year Caroline, first Lady Holland, writes from London to her sister, Emily, Countess of Kildare, about a present of furniture for a third sister, Lady Louisa Connolly, 'I hear she like L'Anglay's inlaid things very much, and I should wish to send her something that might suit some of her rooms, whether commode table, bureau or coins, which to be sure one might vulgarly call corner cupboards; but really they are lovely and finish a room so well. I have two beauties in the salon at Holland House'.2 The first Duchess of Northumberland notes in her memorandum book the purchase of 'a table inlaid wood by Langlois', which is probably one of the card tables with inlaid tops at Syon House.3 George Montague writes to Horace Walpole on March 12, 1766: 'I will take my corporal oath that three parts of the japan you gave Langlois to make into commodes is still there, and so will Mr. Chute. He carried me to see his things, and there it was flowing about the rooms in panells and on the staircase; 'tis a burning shame.' In his trade card Langlois gives his address as Tottenham Court Road and states that he 'makes all sorts of fine cabinets and commodes made and inlaid in the politest manner with brass and tortoiseshell, and likewise all rich ornamental clock cases and inlaid work mended with great care. Branch chandeliers and lanthorns in brass at the lowest prices The advertisement is printed in French and English, indicating that he sought to obtain a market in the country of his origin (Plate 227).
Peter Langlois, it is stated in Mortimer's Universal Director (1763), 'performs all sorts of curious inlaid work, particularly commodes in the foreign taste, inlaid with tortoiseshell, brass, etc.' This notice shows that, like Gerreit Jensen (q.v.) at an earlier date he worked in a metal technique based on the practice of Andre Charles Boulle. He is possibly the Pierre- Eloi Langlois (1735-1803), who became a maitre-menusier in 1773 and apparently worked in Paris for the remainder of his life.3 1 Family Background, G. Scott Thomson, 1949, p. 53.
2 Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster, edited by Brian Fitzgerald, Irish MSS. Commission, Vol. I,
N.B. The Duke of Leinster was a signatory on the Marriage settlement of Mary HORNECK and Frances Edward Gwyn. Does this point to a connection between the HORNECK and KHAARNACK families?
There is a pair of inlaid pier tables and a set of painted and gilt furniture, c. 1770 and certainly by the same maker, at Audley End. See also F. de Salverte, Les Ebenistes du XVIIIe Siecle, 1934.

The Lonsdale Langlois Commode
A George III Ormolu-Mounted Rosewood, Fruitwood and Marquetry Bombe Commode by Pierre Langlois
Sold for $2,532,500
24 November 1998
Christie's, New York
Auction record for an English commode
Pierre Langlois had two factories, one in Paris and one in London.

George III Marquetry Commode with bronze mounts attributed to Pierre Langlois.

Langlois also receives a mention in the following book:
CHIPPENDALE. Coleridge, Anthony. Chippendale Furniture. The work of Thomas Chippendale and his Contemporaries in the Rococo taste - Vile, Cobb, Langlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince and Mayhew, Lock, Johnson, and others ca. 1745-1765. London. Faber & Faber. 1968.

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The Latest Haarnack Discovery

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:01:00 -0700

Recently I found a burial on 30th Sept 1818 in St Pancras of a Christian Harneck aged 39. This would mean he would have been born in 1779 and he could not be related to Charles Horneck as he was in America 1777 to 1781. So there still remains a mystery as to who his parents were.

However a friend of mine from the harp community, Mike Baldwin, has recently discovered a reference to Haarnack on one of Erard's letters of 1818. Since there are no later reference it would seem to reinforce the idea that Christian Haarnack died in 1818.

Mike believes it will be possible to identify harps made for Erard by Haarnack. Watch this space.

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May Evelyn Haarnack. 1st May 1910 - 5th December 2009

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:17:00 -0800

It is with - great regret I have to announce the death of my cousin, Queenie. I only discovered her just ten years ago and I wish I had known her longer. She was a great lady and will be missed by all who knew her.

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Searching St Pancras area parish records

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:09:00 -0800

I have begun searching parish records in the St Pancras area in the records now available on Ancestry.
I have completed searches of the Percy Chapel 1777-1804 and 1747-1808.
My next task is will be the St Pancras Parish Church.

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Ten years ago.....

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:55:00 -0800

I exchanged several letters with Ernest Cornelius Harnack's great great grandson Henri (now anglicised to Henry) Jean Victor Harnack who was living in Dunfirmline . He had two daughters and there may be grandchildren. I would like to reestablish contact.

This branch of the family were also tailors.
Ernest Cornelius married Susannah Eve (wrongly transcribed in the IGI as Ere) at St Pancras church in 1808.

By now you will recall that Christian Haarnack had his roots in the parish of St Pancras so you will be able to predict that I am about to say there might be a family connection.
Another thing that occurs to me is that Christian, Frederick and Ernest ( sometimes written as Ernst) are all German forenames.

Henry's grandfather John Henry went out to India in about the 1860s and had a business in Calcutta.
He returned to England with his third wife Selina Rachel Norton and lived in Kingston, Surrey.He died in 1915 and she died ten years later in 1925.

Coincidentally , my own father - a Haarnack descendant - was born in Kingston Surrey in 1920. Was he a distant cousin?

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Another Harnack family offshoot contemporary with Fred and Rose Harnack and Christian and Sarah Haarnack.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:44:00 -0800

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The Missing Link

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:27:00 -0800

My name is Neil Patterson.
I live in Victoria Australia and I am a great grandson of Emma Sophia HARNACK who arrived in Melbourne in July 1852, on the ship "Lady McDonald" aged one year old, along with her brother Frederick, aged 6 years,
with her father: Christopher Lewis (Lodewick) HARNACK, and her mother:
Mary Ann HARNACK,nee BARTROP.
I came across your website quite by accident and I found it
very fascinating, filling in the some of the "HARNACK" family, pre
Australia, I must say that I do not know any where as much as you
do but my great grandmother Emma married William John CORNISH.
One of their sons was James Henry CORNISH. He was
my grandfather, his only child was my mother: Thelma PATTERSON, nee
CORNISH.

I looked up Ballarat on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat,_Victoria
and discovered it was the centre of a goldrush in 1851!!!!!!

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:10:11 -0800

Frederick HARNACK was born c1766 "in Foreign Parts". I do not know who is parents were

or when he came to England but, in 1803, he married Rose or Rosanna SWAILE in St George's church in Bloomsbury.

(There is a possibility that he might be related to my Christian Haarnack - either brother or cousin)

.Frederick and Rose's youngest son Christopher Lodewick (or Lewis )HARNACK.was born in 1811 and christened on 10 Apr 1814 in St Mary, Marylebone, Middx. He appears to have married twice. Firstlly to Charlotte Mary Barnes Pike and secondly to Mary Ann Barltrop.

I had previously found Christopher Lewis's family in the 1851 census but then they disappeared!

The mystery was solved for me by Neil Patterson of Australia who found me through the Internet.

This what he told me

"I can now confirm that, according to Death Registration, number 3034,

in The State of Victoria, that my Great Great Grandfather Christopher

HARNACK,was deceased on 13th May 1868, at "The Hospital" Ballarat West,

Victoria, Australia,after suffering an illness, for a duration exceeding two

years. His stated occupation was "Tailor"

The stated informant was Christopher's son "Frederick Lewis HARNACK,

Coach Builder of Ballarat West.

Christopher's four children were listed as, Frederick 22yrs, Alfred

deceased, Sophia 18yrs, Amelia deceased.

There were however several entries that puzzled me a little, the most

puzzling was

(1) Name and Surname of Father and Mother, if known, with Rank of

Profession .

The names, etc, as entered were "Frederick Charles & Elizabeth

HARNACK, Tailor, London." but as far as I was always aware those two were his

brother, and his sister in law.!

And also even though not proven I had placed Christopher's birth year

as1814, but the two entries (2) & (3) put his birth year at 1811.

(2) his stated age at his death, was 57 yrs

(3) his stated age when he married Mary Ann BARLTROP, in Marylebone,

London, was 34yrs.

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Family tree with updated information

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:27:00 -0800

Amelia Frances Jane was born in Australia!

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Where do we look now?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:15:55 -0800

There was another family with the surname Harnack, some of whom lived in the same part of London

Details are given on this page of my old website
http://www.bonn25.freeserve.co.uk/other.html

Of all the branches this particular one seems worth looking at.....
You will see that Frederick Charles was a contemporary of Henry Haarnack and his youngest daughter Martha Rosina was born at 22, Tottenham Street in 1839.

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A useful map for Haarnack family history

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:04:49 -0800

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Let's clear up one thing....

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:42:00 -0800

I had always fostered an idea that there might have been a connection between Christian Haarnack and the subject of my MA thesis - Charles Horneck.

What made me think that this might be a possibility?

Both men were married at St Martins in the Fields.
In the St Pancras Vestry Rate Books "Haarnack" is spelled "HORNECK"so they both had the same spelling .
Charles Horneck died in Bath on April 8th 1804. and the first record I have of Christian Haarnack is his marriage three years later in 1807.
It is perfectly possibly that although the spellings are different both surnames were pronounced in the same way and the double "aa" was sounded as "or" in "horse" and not "ar" as in "car".
Spellings were not standardised and names were written down as they sounded so variations in vowel sounds are not significant.
There is a family story that the Haarnacks changed their name but when this was we do not know . It was certainly Haarnack from 1807 onwards.
Charles Horneck had no legitimate heirs and he did not acknowledge any children but that is not to say that he didn't have any! It is perfectly possible that Christian was born out of wedlock but his mother gave the child the father's surname anyway.
Charles Horneck either lived or lodged or had a connection with someone who lived 9, Russell Place in 1793. I know this because it is the address to which he requests his lost dog should be returned if found.(See Newspaper cutting from the Times). Russell Place is just round the corner from Tottenham Street as shown on the previously posted map.

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BUT, if Christian Haarnack was born in 1779 he cannot be the child of Charles Horneck because I know for sure that he went to America in 1777!
So, unless further information comes to light , I must stop this line of enquiry at present and discount the ideas expressed above!

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More about the Haarnack harp making business

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:42:00 -0800

Christian Haarnack, who we now know was born circa 1779 and died in 1818, worked as chief mechanic for Erards at the time of his marriage in 1807. He would most certainly have been involved in designing and testing improvements to the harp which were patented later by Erard. I did not find any reference to him by name in the Erard business records at the Royal College of Music when I visited a few years ago but I should probably look again.

Christian died leaving his widow Sarah with three sons: Henry, Christian and Edward. No record of Edward's birth or baptism has been found and there is no reference to him anywhere other than the Old Bailey records. So we must presume he died in infancy. So it seems unlikely that Henry and Christian could have learnt harp-making from their father but they both became " music smiths" which was the term used in those days for musical instrument makers. I think they must have got work with a harpmaker who was one of their father's contemporaries in the harp making community. If they had a full apprenticeship there should be records somewhere.

In his advertisements in the Times Henry says that heworked for "the late Mr Grosjean" (of Schwieso and Grosjean in Soho Square) . I have been able to deduce he started working in the harp business in 1823. He would have been about fifteen years old. In 1863 Henry could boast 40 years experience in the harpmaking trade. This all fits in quite neatly with the story I am putting together.

Henry Haarnack ( 1808-1890) was the one who really established the family business in Berners Street , Newman Street and, from the 1860s, Charlotte Street. I have seen harps with all three of these addresses on the plate .
He advertised regularly in the Times newspaper over the years so I have been able to record his business premises.

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Re Henry Haarnack - mover and shaker

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:15:00 -0800

Old Henry was the one who really built up the family businesses and hence family fortunes. Maybe if he lost his father as a young boy and saw his mother struggle to provide for her sons he was all the more determined to be successful. During his lifetime not only did he establish the harp-making business but he owned at least two coffee shops thus providing work for his growing family . His sons and unmarried daughters worked in the family businesses. So you might say he was quite a little empire builder. The family would have been well provided for by his bequests.
As can be seen from his will, he owned both freehold and leasehold properties.
As far as we know - since no will has survived - we assume that Christian did not leave anything for his family. So it must have been Henry who developed Haarnack " empire" . If the picture posted below IS old Henry, I think it reveals his shrewd business acumen, his reputation and hard -working nature. What do you think?

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St Pancras Burial Register Record for Christina Hanack aged 39

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:46:00 -0800

An enlarged version shows the extra ink marks in the handwriting which make identification clearer and you can also see that there is a tail on the last digit of the age which makes it 39

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