Wedding cake dilemma

[Sandra Parker]

I am looking for expert advice on these wedding cake pictures. Are they the same or is it possible that the same person made them about 5 years apart?
Why do I need to know? Well one is of my father's wedding cake, married 1941. The other is in a photo with only his Aunt and the cake, (she had married later in her life in 1936). She may have been the creator of the 1941 cake, in which case she knew about the wedding, or it may have been her own wedding cake from 1936.
I always knew about the first cake, but was very surprised to find the second photo, received only recently from a niece, seemed to match up.
How likely would it have been for 2 wedding cakes to have been same in the same style,especially as one was made in the war with ingredients sent over from Australia for the purpose.
Sorry about the standard of the photos.
Would appreciate any thoughts.
Sandra

[mare]

...  inclined to think it is the same cake as well, certainly the proportions and style pretty much identical though  taken from another angle and showing variation in silver decorations ... could it perhaps be a mock wedding cake, like a prop during rationing?  Of course it could well be two cakes replicated by choice and also the same maker may have even made more of the same, using same size tins and board and style.
Rather unhelpful and not exactly expert thoughts from  me ....  mare

[Sandra Parker]

Thanks Mare.
The Aunt in Australia definitely sent dried fruit and other stuff for the wedding cake and there are ration details for the other cake items, so I think we can conclude that 1941 cake was real. No need for 1936 one to have been pretend as the Aunt who married then, and her groom were quite comfortably well off.
I appreciate your thoughts, it does help. My own thought was that  the cake was probably the same one and the 2 photos from different people at the same time, and that possible the Aunt in the picture was the creator of the 1941 cake, rather than it was hers in 1936.
Unless anyone else has any other ideas.
Sandra

[bearkat]

The cakes look similar.  Could be the same cake or different cakes made by the same person using the same accessories.

Prop wedding cakes often contained a smaller real cake inside.

[Jebber]

Taking into account the icing, the decorations, the cake stand, the tables  and position of the cake on the tables, I would say it is the same cake taken from slightly different angles.

Jebber

[Cell]

Hi,

It's the same cake
I did not look at the cake at all at first glance, my eyes went to what the cake is standing on  , I'm facinatined with creases, backgounds. I must  be  totally odd

The photographs are taken from the the same position with  a similar shadow behind and  the exact crease [/u] in the tablecloth  .  I think  it is is definetley the same cake  .

I'm not comparing cakes I'm comparing the shadows and creases  on the cloth.

hope that helps Kind regards

[Fennawright]

Hi

I think they are different cakes.

One has some decoration between the supporting pillars
and the other doesn't.

Also the decorations on the bottom cake are placed in a different way.
One cake has a them in a line around the cake and the other has them
in a group.

We save our cake decorations and use them again, so I think
it could be the same decorations used on those two cakes.
Or that could be what was in fashion/available at the time.

Fennawright

[Rena]

I'm inclined to think they're two different cakes too.

[Sandra Parker]

oh dear!
Thank you all for your comments. In view of Cell's comments on the surrounds, I have attached the complete second photo. My original photo, 1941, was just of the cake. This Aunt could be the cake maker.
I knew others would be able to make more sense of it than I could.
Sandral