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Thank you!! I'm really starting to feel like my chap might have been a copper..

Ah thank you :laughing:

Today I thought to try significantly lightening the photograph, and noticed (or thought I did) a few things. 1. There seems to be some sort of embroidery or something on the collar (red arrow). 2. The so-called X "button holes" do not seem properly on the button itself, as if it might not be...

Thank you! My chap's button does seem to have such a distinct X though.

Yes, Anthea, going by the photographers' studios, the photographs do date to the Victorian era :)

I did think he looked educated and quite refined; I'd mentioned before that in his younger photo especially I thought he looked like a chemist or something. Ooh would love to think he was a doctor or writer.

But I imagine at a certain level, he would have been literate, yes? I'd like to think he was educated. Of course this is all on the assumption he was with the railways haha

Or postal service?? Not the same button though.

Ooh how cool is that! 86% eh? Well that's pretty good I think haha

Yes! Thank you so much! I wish I knew what that role was exactly -- administrative perhaps. Did they pay very well I wonder? Was he what one would call a gentleman?

He does seem to have seen a lot by the time he was older. It does seem to me though that he'd always had that look of being um.. quietly amused.. like he was laughing a bit inwardly, in a sort of cynical? contemptuous? way.. Ah, I'm not much closer to finding out who he was, but I'm glad you...

Unfortunately it seems the coat and button were not distinctive enough :pensive:

Yes, I'd noted that, but I think it may perhaps be the angle -- the older one is much more frontal/forward-facing; the younger is tilted to the side (try doing it in a mirror ^-^). The eyes and brows are very close though, I think, and goodness, the hair even curls the same way haha

Mm.. Gregory Peck :heart_eyes:

No, unfortunately not. It's actually quite a teeny photo.