MAN WITH FUNNY HAT CIVIL WAR ERA TINTYPE PHOTO 1860`S

[Shotgun Steve]

TINTYPE PHOTO FROM THE 1860`s ITS A YOUNG MAN WITH UNUSAL HAT, CIVIL WAR?
OR JUST A FUNNY HAT??? IT'S IN GOOD CONDITION.

[Books OToole]

It looks like a very early "Montana Peak" but with a very small brim.

Books

[Texas Lawdog]

+1

[Shotgun Steve]

I thought it looked like a Montana Peak to me too. The description came with
the photo..it is not my description. I have seen some Montana Peaks with a narrow
brim before but not as small as this one.

[Will Ketchum]

What the heck is that around his neck?

Will Ketchum

[Dr. Bob]

Looks like a scarf or the collar of a sweater.  The had looks kind of like a "bee hive" that got pinched.

[Shotgun Franklin]

Something don't look right about that boy.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Something don't look right about that boy.

+1 !

That "thing" around his neck?  Like the good Dr. said, a scarf or perhaps an early ascot?  (More likely, the ascot was an attempt to mimic the scarf, but without the bulk.)

[River City John]

It could be just a ruffled front to a fancy shirt.

[Shotgun Steve]

It could be just a ruffled front to a fancy shirt.

That was my first impression RCJ.

[Buffalow Red]

i vote for a frilly shirt

[Ottawa Creek Bill]

Looks like a recent emigrant from France......those shirts were really popular over there with the effeminate elite

Bill

[Delmonico]

And the hat hides a conehead.     Fried chicken embryo's anyone?

[Delmonico]

To be truthful I am not sure it's a guy, tintypes are reversed, the button on the coat is wrong for a reversed man's coat.  Hard to tell but I think that is not pants but a skirt. 

[Texas Lawdog]

Can I have some Ham on that fried egg with some sour dough bread?

[River City John]

As seen in the other tintype of a "Gambler? etc." with a revolver grip showing, his pants were voluminous and lots of extra fabric may account for the 'skirt' effect. 19th century trowser legs were sometimes cut very full.

What tells me, more than anything else, that this is a gentleman is his pose sitting with crossed legs. Something I don't recall seeing in a comparable sitting pose of a woman, although not to say it didn't happen. It's just that 19th cent.society's views on woman sitting in that pose would have been very stringent, to say the least.

And yes, I have seen images of actresses or perhaps, 'soiled doves' in skimpy clothing sitting with legs crossed. But that was intentional to titilate, and I don't think this image is intended to be risque'.



RCJ

[Delmonico]

So then we must guess he's wearing a ladies coat?

[River City John]

Or a European coat? He looks like a Greek or Italian immigrant to me.