Topical: The Moustache

Impressive man, impressive moustache.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.


INDIA
Scott 676



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The moustache gene?

Umberto I


1889 Scott 54 45c gray green

Humbert I (Umberto I) of Italy had a 'stache that must have taken a pound of wax.

Umberto's mustache looks better/neater on the stamp than
in the photo.
Artistic license I suppose.

AUSTRIA

Scott 1331




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Interesting '90' tatoo...
...but staying with the moustache - Chile 1911, Manuel Bulnes.



& Chile 1934, Manuel Bulnes

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Manuel José Estrada Cabrera (1857-1924), President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920, with the frame decorated by a Resplendent Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno), the national bird of Guatemala, engraved and printed by American Bank Note Company, and issued by Guatemala in 1918, Scott No. 161. I think the quetzal's extravagant tail feathers complement the old gentleman's mustache rather well, don't you?

- nethryk

That was my thought before I even scrolled up to see what you had written!

Here is an image of an airmail stamp featuring a portrait of Panamanian engineer Pedro J. Sosa (1851-1986), who participated in the construction of the Panama Canal, engraved and printed by the Columbian Bank Note Company, Chicago, and issued as one of a set of eight stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of the opening of the canal, Scott No. C56, plus an image of a bust of Sosa located in the Plaza de Francia, Panama City.

- nethryk

Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (1846-1904) was a French politician who played a major role in securing the recognition of trade unions in France in 1884. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Waldeck-Rousseau, designed by Huguette Sainson, engraved by Claude Durrens, and issued by France on March 22, 1984 to commemorate the centenary of the historic labor law, Scott No. 1907, Y&T No. 2305, plus an image of a portrait of the statesman by French photographer Nadar (pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820-1910) which may have been a model for this stamp's design..

- nethryk

Poirot is well know for his moustache, here he is (along side a couple of others sporting a tash) issued by Dominica 1996 '100 years of Cinema'

Hi, everybody!

Vlad Dracula (Vlad The Impaler)- maxicard from Romania.

Variant maxicard, with a slighly different shape of moustache.

Santa Claus's white moustache, and beard, too.