Smoking room colored slide on ebay

[Dave Hudson]

http://cgi.ebay.com/White-Star-Liner-Steamship-RMS-Olympic-Smoking-Room-/360369333071?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e7afa34f

Any thoughts on this? I realize it's hand colored and not a color photo but why the burgundy? The photo itself is more familiar in it's B&W form, so I'm guessing the photographer himself did not paint it. Still, why the color choices?

 

[Rocky Whiteside]

I'd think it's safe to say the artist did not know the true colors of the smoking room. That's just my opinion, though.