Can my man please have some TLC

[PaulaToo]

All I can think of is two photographers working out of the same studio with  slightly different styles...hence he is slimmer in photo 2

Perhaps 2 was a junior, working with out of date stock left over from somewhere else....

I'm not Prue, I can only go by intuition....

[VictorianDreamer]

There were loads upon loads of business's closing and opening up all the time way back when. If you can get a look at newspapers of the times, there were columns of business's closing, dissolving partnerships, selling stock etc. Maybe one place closed down and sold all their stock to another, one person dissolved partnership with another and took what was 'his', and joined up with the second photographer. Loads of explanations for it, just a matter of finding the one that 'fits'

Victoria

[PaulaToo]

Here are my two

[ettya]

beautiful work there Paulatoo.

Many thanks

Esther

[PaulaToo]

He's a lovely old gentleman, Esther.

As to his looking slimmer in the second photo...
I'm thinking he has turned ever so slightly and we are not seeing him fully front on, also in the first photo his chin is held higher shortening his face, second photo the chin is down.
 What ever, I still think he looks like a cuddly teddy bear.