The Oliver Twist author was known for his trademark beard, but the daguerreotype profile portrait shows his handlebar-style moustache, which he only sported for a few years.
An 'extremely rare' daguerrotype portrait photograph of a moustachioed Charles Dickens, who usually sported a beard, is on display for the first time ever at the Charles Dickens Museum, which is housed in the only surviving London home that the author owned.