CDV Carte de Visite - City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) Original Sepia Portrait Photograph in Uniform

A scarce Carte de Visite (CDV) showing a rather smart trooper of the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders). His RR collar badges are clear in the image, the cap badge in the slouch hat, less so. Some creasing to image and back board, some contemporary ink annotations with what looks like the name of the person in the portrait "Tom Bumpus" and an erroneous note on the bottom edge "Uniform to do with Bank of England". An incorrect assumption but it does reveal he may have worked there at the turn of the 1900s although the 1914 who's who entry suggests he could also have been the Managing Director of the firm below:

BUMPUS, JOHN & EDWARD, Ltd., Booksellers, 350, Oxford Street, London, W. Hours of Business: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Established in 1797 by John Bumpus. Incorporated as a Limited Company in 1892. Directors: Thomas Bumpus (Managing Director), John B. Bumpus, H. D. Vincent, J. V. E. Taylor. One of the oldest and best-known London Bookselling firms. Premises in Oxford Street were rebuilt, 1881-1882, in present handsome style, and comprise five floors, including basement. Staff: About fifty. Specialities: Second-hand Books, Book Plates, Highest-class Leather Bindings, Bound Books generally, and Art Books. Connection: United Kingdom, Foreign, Colonial. The firm are Royal Warrant Holders. Telephone: No. 1651 Paddington.

Worthy of further research.

The carte de visite was usually an albumen print from a collodion negative on thin paper glued onto a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54 mm (2.125 in) × 89 mm (3.5 in) (approximately the size of a business card), mounted on a card sized 64 mm (2.5 in) × 100 mm (4 in). The reverse was generally printed with the logo of the photographer or the photography studio from which it came, as both protection of copyright and advertising, and sometimes carried instructions for effective posing.

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