Figure 1.--This boy here is Ernst Frederick unless mother neglected to write the family name. He looks to be about 8 years old. He wears a vested cut-away jacket suit with bloomer knickers and white long stockings. It is a white or very light-colored suit. Ernst seems to have a small Eton collar and no neckwear. Note the fashionable high-top shoes. His boater style hat is on the table.

This boy here is Ernst Frederick unless mother neglected to write the family name. He looks to be about 8 years old. He wears a vested cut-away jacket suit with bloomer knickers and white long stockings. It is a white or very light-colored suit. Ernst seems to have a small Eton collar and no neckwear. Note the fashionable high-top shoes. His boater style hat is on the table. The studio is Ayles & Bonniwell, Trinity House, Hastings. The portrait was taken in 1861. The fact that that the mount has square corners confirm that it is an early CDV. We at first thought that the date was perhaps his birthday because the pose, the shoes, and perhaps the hat are no right for the United States in 1861. Than we noticed that it was an English CDV. This thus is very helpful in destinguishing Amerucan and English CDVs and dating English CDVs. We do not see high-top shoes in America untill the 70s and poses like this also begin to appear in the 70s. The white stockings, however, were common in both America and England.

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