Record number GP75         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name seeds and bars & horizontal & commercial         Other name John Grimes' seeds and bars Sheringham gansey         Named collection           Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, John Grimes' seeds and bars gansey; Sheringham fisherman 1858; a universal pattern         Association           Nature wearer         Person fisherman : Grimes, John         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Date 1858         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter :         Date 1858 (pre)         Place & Polperro & Cornwall (?)         Technical data               Note3 tension         Note           Preproduction           Simple name photograph         Full name           Reference number           Note Upcher family photograph albums, Sheringham Hall; copied by Tim Groves. Possibly the oldest photograph of a gansey in the world.         Photography           Type digitised image       GP75_1.jpg             Institution3           Photography           Type digitised image       GP75_2.jpg             Institution3           Reference number           Documentation           Note           Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by :         Date           Documentation         .jpg         Reference number _chart.pdf         Reproduction           Type sampler         Corporate body for :         Person knitted by :         Date requested           Dimensions           Documentation group           Documentation           Link shering.html         Recorder Warren, Martin :         Documentation group           Reference Correl, Philip : : Lewis Harding - Cornwall's Pioneer Photographer : : Polperro Heritage Press : 48 pp, 106 illustrations ISBN 0953001245             Note3           Notes Lewis Harding is famous for his photographs of the fishermen of Polperro, He began his photographic career in 1856 but we do not (yet) know if he chose fishermen as his subjects immediately or if he came to them later than 1956. The photograph of John Grimes, dated in the Upcher photo albumn at 1858, must be one of the oldest, if not the oldest photograph of a fisherman wearing a gansey anywhere in the world. The pattern however was very likely knitted in Polperro.