So I have this photograph that was included with some others of the Battaglini family, of the vicinity of Pisa in Italy.
The photo I have is not an original but part of a series of old reproduction postcards, which have been pencilled in with a number and name on the back – unfortunately I appear to be missing quite a few, as the numbers of the four postcards I have are 3, 4, 7, and 10.
The photograph in question is pencilled 10, underneath in the same handwritting is "Barone Silvatice = Parente di Battaglini". Now 3 and 4 are Ermanno Battaglini (b. 1847) and Raffaello Battaglini (b. circa 1850) who both emigrated to Australia. 7 is Jacopo Battaglini (b. 1813) their father. But I have no idea who this Barone Silvatice is. Jacopo's father Guiseppe Andrea Battaglini (b. 1773) seems a stretch, given the apparent relative youth of the subject.
So I guess what would be helpful is if anyone can give an approximate age of the subject and possible date for the photograph. Or else have any information on a Barone Silvatice. If you consider it at all helpful I can post the other postcards for comparison, but they are all fairly different styles, so probably were not done at around the same time.
