bobbi -

Depending of course on the amount of damage, a ripped print often can be fairly easily "put back together." With fairly simple methods, my SO's mother's antique photos yielded good pictures of ancient relatives that originally arrived with missing ears, coke-stained eyeballs, and one with an 8 inch long x 2 inch wide crack in the middle of a 19 x 14 print.

But the good print we finally found will be a lot easier starting point. I'd still like to know who owns the original now, and why it's so well hidden.

Donuel -

I haven't looked closely enough to be really sure, but there appears to be a "remnant" on your enlargement that suggests someone may have used the same "thumbnail" I found at Lebrecht. A tiny bit of gold on the front of the piano above the keyboard looks like what I took to be part of the "watermark" on the Lebrecht thumbnail. The one you used for your enlargement may be from the same source, and someone who posted it earlier may have "cleaned" it to remove the watermark(?).

I haven't looked to see if there's any "metadata" in either of the .jpg files that might give a more positive indication, but if they are from the same source, that one stock photo may be an exclusive. It's likely that Lebrecht would have a © embedded in their file, and it may have survived previous manipulation of the image, or not.

John