18.00 USD
Beautiful Panama hat! Kaiser Wilhelm mustaches, silk jacket, a striped, square-ended silk necktie in the popular two-color striped pattern that was popular in the 1880s and 90s, striped shirt (perpendicular to the tie's stripes of course...a fellow wants to be seen, after all...),
a cummerbund showing a watch chain, striped pants (of course!), gloves, and a beautiful two piece (handle and shaft) walking stick trimmed from a tree bough, oiled and polished, with some hand-decoration on the top half.
We are simply agog with admiration for this guy :) What panache! Wish we could check out his shoes!
At a little under 2 by 4 and 3/4 inches this is a phenomenal portrait card circa 1890s, produced by Strauss and Company of Vienna Austria.