It's been awhile since I posted anything in this blog and I've been told by my better half it would be good if I did. I don't disagree, so I'll try to do better, starting now.
This is a late 19th century cabinet photo - maybe as early as the 1870s, maybe not - of 5 men standing and sitting under a portrait. One holds a long cylinder like object.
We have determined that the portrait is of Galileo, which made me think that the object one person is holding may be part of a telescope. However, someone else thinks it is a Narwhale (or narwhal) tusk, and it may very well be, because it really doesn't look like part of a telescope.
These people may be academics of some sort, they just have that look. There is no photographer information, and no writing to give us a clue as to who they were.
I rate this somewhere between unusual and really unusual for a cabinet photo. Most are very formal portraits, this one is not.
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