r/whatisit • u/Hangry-24-7 • 1d ago

New, what is it? Uncle holding something

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Picture of my wife’s uncle as a boy 7 or 8 yrs old. Grew up on a farm in western NY. This picture dates back to around 1947 or 1948. What is the boy holding? Is it a toy? Or some sort of farm tool?

Update — yes this photo was enhanced using ai to take the graininess out of the original picture. My wife is giving a copy of the image to her cousin for an 80th birthday gift along with other photos.

The AI bashing on this post is unbelievable! How come nobody is bashing the fact that I used a scanner to create a jpeg of the image as opposed to creating a duplicate from a photo negative in a dark room and sending out 250 copies thru the postal service?

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u/TyrannicalTestical 1d ago

This is an AI generated image. It's likely being used as a test to see if people can tell. There have been a lot of these lately.

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u/Sylfaemo 1d ago

Yeah. The giveaway for me was the 30 degree bent trees. What?

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u/Forward-Big8697 1d ago

I see the odd pole sticking out of the ground at an angle in front of the trees, is that what youre talking about. I think youre right I just wanna see it

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u/Sylfaemo 1d ago

Could be a pole. To me its a weird trunk.

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u/GingerIsTheBestSpice 1d ago

Looks like the line that's attached to a telephone pole for stability. They're called "guy-lines"