Highlights from my collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs (cabinet photographs, cartes de visite (cdvs), albumen prints, real photographic postcards) of men with moustaches (or mustaches, depending on which side of the pond you hail from). We travel the world gleaning bits of information whilst admiring the expertly twirled moustaches on display.

Fri 20th April: Walsall, Red Hill, Liege & Tegernsee

Four gentlemen photographed side-on. A not uncommon pose with which to show off your finely-twirled moustache.  Walsall & Red Hill, England; Liège, Belgium; Tegernsee, Bavaria. All cartes de visite. The back of the Walsall card shows the familiar marks left when a protective sheet of tissue paper, which was originally gummed to the top of the card, has been torn away.







































A close-up of the man from Tegernsee reveals that his moustache was perhaps not so finely-twirled after all. One side of it has been carefully inked in at a later date.
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