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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 48612, member: 59"]Tried finding info on 19th C. "sailor uniforms" and got lots of images, but mostly more recent and all of them the kind of dressed up look we see more often in portraits. I'm wondering if this guy is a regular merchant seaman of the lower grades where what you wore was more suited to heavy work.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also wonder if they're British instead of US. It would be good to get Davey's eyes on this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 48612, member: 59"]Tried finding info on 19th C. "sailor uniforms" and got lots of images, but mostly more recent and all of them the kind of dressed up look we see more often in portraits. I'm wondering if this guy is a regular merchant seaman of the lower grades where what you wore was more suited to heavy work. I also wonder if they're British instead of US. It would be good to get Davey's eyes on this.[/QUOTE]
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