Really? Not Another One!

[BettyO]

(07-19-2012 07:02 PM)Gene C Wrote:  That's a pretty good mustache for an 18 year old (Age per the owner of the photogragh. What a shame he's lost his
paper work verifying authenticity)

There is something very much in resemblance regarding the eyes and nose....but JWB had somewhat curly hair. This guy's hair is more or less pretty straight and combed back. Again, if this guy is 18 years old, that mustache is pretty heavy, plus this is a CDV image. Unless it would be a COPY of an ambrotype (principally the main type of photograph in the antebellum era) - that fact alone will spell it as not being Booth. CDV's were not popular until about 1862. If JWB was 18 in this photo, then the original would have to have been an ambrotype - NOT a CDV. The photo of 15 year old Lew Powell, which belongs to the Powell family, is a CDV copied from an original ambrotype. Plus, the back mark of this purported CDV definitely looks 1870ish to me as does the clothing in this photo.