| Carte de Visite G. Dautez - Photographer Gibraltar c. 1870 This pair of carte de visites were found associated together and based upon their common time period and Mediteranean location I decided to link them together as a group. Both images appear to date form the late 1860s to the very early 1870s. The first thing that one might notice in these two images is that both of the young officers wear white cloth covers on their forage caps with attached havelocks. Not often seen in period photographs this combination head gear was worn prior to the official adoption of the white foreign service helmet. The above carte is a beautifully realized vignetted portrait of an anonymous officer station at Gibraltar. Like his name, his regiment also is a mystery. In the second carte below, this unidentified officer also wears white - possibly cotton - 5 button frock in consequence of the warm Maltese climate. |
| Carte de Visite Michele Zahra - Photographer 125 Strada Bretannica, Valetta, Malta c. 1870 |