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.

Sun 22nd: Bulgaria, Ambleside and unknown

Most nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century portraits are very formally posed so the following three images are, comparatively speaking, decidedly louche...

First up we have a Bulgarian sporting not only an incredible moustache but some mighty fine traditional boots. He's accompanied by a dog not unlike our very own Sniff. If anyone can decipher cyrillic please do let me know where exactly this was taken - the photographer has printed his address on the back but try as I might I can't translate it...Next up, a knickerbockered gent from Ambleside who looks a little like Proust with his sad eyes and kiss curl. Finally, a man in a most unusual outdoor pose, cigar casually clenched between the teeth, somewhere in England about 1880. (You can click on all the photos in this blog to view a larger image, as I myself have just discovered...)








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