Victorian and Edwardian Beards as the Apex of Gentlemanly Adornments.
Gentle Readers
The Nineteenth Century was a renaissance of facial adornment and experimentation. Never before or since has the beard been such an exquisite presentation of unabashed masculinity. Herein, find but a poor sampling of the magnificence that was the Century of the Beard.
Duck hunting must be very serious business. Note, the glowering expression, the raptor-sharp nose and the neckbeard. This man is no poseur and knows the true call of the hunter to kill only what he eats and eat all that he kills.