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.

Thursday 1st Movember: Mystery location and Sofia

This first image is historically too late for my collection: it looks post WW1 to me and 1918 is generally my cut-off point. Nevertheless, I couldn't resist its painterly charms.

I have always assumed the two men photographed were Latin American but the back of the card seems to be British. Perhaps they were visiting London and had this taken as a souvenir to send back to Buenos Aires...

The man on the right wins hands down in the looks department...


















Secondly, I present another postcard which is historically rather late for my collection and which features moustaches which are frankly perfunctory, but once more I couldn't resist it. There's a mandolin! He's serenading him!

The two soldiers are Bulgarian (the back of the postcard has an address in Sofia, bottom left). It's dated 1918. Is there anyone out there who can make out/translate the text for me?



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