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.

Wed 25th: Pozsony, Graz, Strassburg, Munich

The other day I was reading a novel by Robert Liddell which was recommended to me in an email by the author Francis King. As one of the characters in the book (Stepsons) was German there was a smattering of German throughout which I could understand but I suddenly came across the casual use of a French word which I had never encountered before:

"Major Ashworth, evidently, had been nowhere near the stables. He was rather shinily endimanché in a dark blue suit and a stiff shirt."

Upon looking it up I learnt that endimanché means dressed to kill. So in celebration of my new-found knowledge here are some Europeans looking exceptionally endimanché.

(Pozsony at the time of the photograph was in Hungary but has now been renamed Bratislava and is in Slovakia. Strassburg is in Austria and not to be confused with Strasbourg in Alsace, France.)

Gentleman, Munich, Germany. Cabinet card.
Gentleman, Graz, Austria. Signed and dated 1904. Cabinet card.




















Gentleman, Strassburg, Austria. Cabinet card.
Gentleman, Pozsony, Hungary. Dates on the back indicate that he was born in 1879 and died on the 26th January, 1911. Cabinet card.













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