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.

Saturday 9th Movember: Galatz

Today's issue: does size matter? Should I go for the ostentatious look or be subtle? Decisions, decisions....

And here we have opposite decisions made at the same moment some time in the 1880s in Galatz, Romania.

(Galatz was the German name for Galati which is now the eighth most populous city in Romania, perched on the Danube in the region of Moldavia.)

Large cabinet photograph (often called a 'boudoir' cabinet card).





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