Figure 1.-- Here we have a CDV with both the boy's name and date of the photograph, the two most imprtant facts for our HBC website. The boy is Osbore Richards. He looks to be about 7 years old. He wears a knee pants sailor suit with a small bow. Clearly the sailor suit was fashionable boys wear by the 1870s. Notice the three-stripe detailing. We are not sure about the color. Knee pants were bdecoming standard forf younger boys. Notice the the voluminous cut and how long they were. We notice striped long stockings which were popular in the 1870s..

Here we have a CDV with both the boy's name and date of the photograph, the two most imprtant facts for our HBC website. The boy is Osbore Richards. He looks to be about 8 years old. He wears a knee pants sailor suit with a small bow. Clearly the sailor suit was fashionable boys wear by the 1870s. Notice the three-stripe detailing. We are not sure about the color. Knee pants were bdecoming standard forf younger boys. Notice the the voluminous cut and how long they were. We notice striped long stockings which were popular in the 1870s. He seems to be holding a gun. And we know that the portrait was taken in 1876, helping to date the various garments. Older English boys wearing sailor suits are less common, because so many biys from affluent families wnt to boarding schools. Also written on the back is what looks like 'Y. Barrow Richards' and on another line 'Peck' alkong with 1876. This presumably is one of the parents. We are not sure if Peck as an extnsion of the first line. The studio was Webster Bros. in Baywater, a fashionble area within the City of Westminster in West London.

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