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.

Sunday 24th Movember: Wales

Cowbridge is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, now almost subsumed by Cardiff, and here we have someone in the studio of S. Hayter - a portrait, landscape and equestrian photographer, c. 1880. I love the photographer's fake balustrade and those crisp striped trousers but am completely baffled as to what is sitting in the urn to the subject's right. A triffid? A skeleton? A pet?

Most peculiar.

Cabinet photograph, S. Hayeter, Cowbridge, Wales.



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