Circa late 1860s. Private Collection.
A stern gentleman with an Irish surname staying in Switzerland in the late 1860s, when it began to be fashionable to cut your hair shorter and slick it back.
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1/6th plate tintype. Private Collection.
This is one of those tintypes that makes me smile. The gentleman looks so victorian with his mustache, but the backdrop here’s the real star and the reason why I added this one to my collection. It’s just so quaint!
Two Europeans with mirror poses
RPPC. Private Collection
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I have a couple of photographs with a halo of sort on the face of the subject. It isn’t a stain but was taken like it. Maybe a defect on the actual photo paper? I’m not familiar with the kind of camera used for RPPCs. The black edge on the left is original of the photograph too and not from my scan.
Anyway, the gentleman on the right is sporting a long mustache, a boat captain hat (?) and a butterfly wing collar with a few rings. His friend (or brother?) is wearing an overcoat and short rimmed square top bowler.
This RPPC came from Estonia.
OMG – a mustache!
Neck scarf wearing mustached gentleman of the 1860s-1870s.
A very nice CDV vignette of a mustached man -the first on this blog, but not the last -ba-dum-ching!
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