1890s-1900s Cabinet card. Private Collection.
The photographer set the camera at a low angle which is highly unusual, but it paid off and the portrait is gorgeous. This gentleman has very beautiful eyes drawing the viewer in. Loving the fat bowtie too.
Alas, no name or photographer logo…This one came from a dealer based in East Sussex, England. This fine sitter was most certainly British.
Plain dark green card with gold bevelled edges and plain back.
Detail of vignette RPPC. Private Collection.
In an effort to look serious this pretty one in a nailhead patterned suit came out a bit broody under the tilted hat! Still a cutie!
This RPPC vignette is on the left half of the card, leaving enough space for messages to the right.
RPPC: PMO. Photo taken between 1907-1915
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.
Circa 1910s-1920s. Private collection
Vignette RPPC of a young man from Petoskey Michigan. He’s wearing a tilted Gatsby cap highly popular in the twenties he lightly placed over his well combed hair. He’s also wearing a raised round stud on his tie. Once again, no name. What a shame. With that cute smile he must have been popular with the ladies!
The whole RPPC after the cut.
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!
Bowlers And High Collars 