Is This Abraham Lincoln?

[Eva Elisabeth]

(06-22-2017 09:04 PM)wcvet6 Wrote:  

(06-22-2017 06:01 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Re.: "to respect others views even if they differ from your own . I feel nobody gave this photo a chance" - please stick to your own request and accept as for me the photo simply doesn't look like Abraham Lincoln to me. Just my perception - if I had come across it it would never have reminded me of him. I'm afraid I do not see what you do, maybe because the photo is so blurred and you may have a better one. I DO respect your opinion. I just cannot see it myself from the means given. (Much more belly also it sems to me btw.)
(My sincere suggestion is to explicitly ask only those to post who agree with you if you don't want to get/hear different opinion.)

you need glasses and an open mind. politics everywhere!

Thank you for the kind advice - I have glasses, a fairly open mind I would think and feel not much exposed to whatever politics going on on the other side of the pond. I go by common sense.
I wish I had more time to tend to this (some demanding exams next week) - but suggest you measure and compare some biometric features and proportions of the two skulls (bone points, not the hairline). I did and they weren't congruent. I suggest you to try yourself - e.g. take the distance from nose radix to tip of chin as 100% and measure and figure how many % thereof the distance tip of chin - lower lip makes, or the nose length. The more you do the more you will see how different the skulls and bone points are.

As for the post mortem - so you think the gentleman is dangling from the stand, lips sewn together - and the head, hand on the cane and back of chair somehow all invisibly fixed...? Shaved, hair dyed white? What about the round belly that spreads the jacket, a cushion?

A Lincoln-lookalike photo (including stove pipe hat) was quite fashionable in those days, and rather for fun, somewhere I saw an entire compilation. I doubt anyone would seriously have taken a photo of the dead President featuring the hat that way on the chair, seems somewhat disrespectful as ridiculous to me (perception due to different times or culture maybe however).

I am looking forward to what the world will say.

PS: Actually resemblance to Jefferson Davis was my very first thought, too.
http://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/images/582.jpg