I don’t know who this is, but he looks distinguished and rather pleased with everything, it would seem.
The photo is glued to a heavy paper board. The board may have been, at one time, a rectangle to fit a standard frame, with the oval outlines you can see. Later in its life, it was cut down, apparently with scissors, to a smaller oval to fit in another frame. I had to trim it down again to get it to fit in my scanner. Even then, since it’s warped, it slid down in the scanner and I had to take the thing apart to retrieve it. It’s got what is either foxing or nicotine browning all over the photo. I removed some of it around the face area with a q-tip and a mild lens cleaning fluid. If this was my grandfather’s picture, I wouldn’t have done that. It’s also been cleaned up in Photoshop, big surprise.
Date? I would guess around the 1930s. Maybe earlier. It’s hard to date this style of clothing. Posh, and all that.
Uncle Bob's Pix 