I've mentioned before on another subforum that in the Young Indy comic series, Old Indy appears rather different from how he looks in the original TV airings.
The comics' Old Indy has two eyes (thus no eyepatch or scar), doesn't wear glasses or vests, wears white dress shirts instead of plaids and checks, and his cane has a standard curved wooden handle, not the fancy brass eagle-head handle design.
On the other hand, he still dresses in brown tweed suits with bow ties, and still has his cane and trademark fedora, so the artists can't have been working without at least some idea of what Old Indy was supposed to look like.
Since other characters in the comic (notably 10 year old Indy and his parents) seem to have been modeled on the actors in costume and are drawn reasonably accurately, I'd guess the art elements sent to the comic book makers for reference were actually images of pre-production costume tests, done before Old Indy's look was finalized.
I bring this back up because at the time I first mentioned this last year, I wasn't quite sure where the alternate Old Indy look had come from. I've since realized it was probably a photo shoot of the original WIP Old Indy costume. Other productions do similar things: for example, the first in-costume cast photos film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl feature Commodore Norrington wearing a uniform not used in the final film.
The vest was probably added to emphasize his age, vests no longer being a standard component of a suit, and the eagle cane is a bit fancier than a plain wood-handled model. As for the eyepatch, scar, and glasses, who knows? Perhaps they disguise the facial differences between George Hall and Harrison.
Reference photos:
The comics' Old Indy has two eyes (thus no eyepatch or scar), doesn't wear glasses or vests, wears white dress shirts instead of plaids and checks, and his cane has a standard curved wooden handle, not the fancy brass eagle-head handle design.
On the other hand, he still dresses in brown tweed suits with bow ties, and still has his cane and trademark fedora, so the artists can't have been working without at least some idea of what Old Indy was supposed to look like.
Since other characters in the comic (notably 10 year old Indy and his parents) seem to have been modeled on the actors in costume and are drawn reasonably accurately, I'd guess the art elements sent to the comic book makers for reference were actually images of pre-production costume tests, done before Old Indy's look was finalized.
I bring this back up because at the time I first mentioned this last year, I wasn't quite sure where the alternate Old Indy look had come from. I've since realized it was probably a photo shoot of the original WIP Old Indy costume. Other productions do similar things: for example, the first in-costume cast photos film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl feature Commodore Norrington wearing a uniform not used in the final film.
The vest was probably added to emphasize his age, vests no longer being a standard component of a suit, and the eagle cane is a bit fancier than a plain wood-handled model. As for the eyepatch, scar, and glasses, who knows? Perhaps they disguise the facial differences between George Hall and Harrison.
Reference photos:
Yes, the cane is different and the blackboard is definitely Henry Sr.'s in Princeton. The desk in front even has some of the same props. You can see the swords are arranged differently. (In the middle image I posted above, not only did someone add the Grail to the blackboard but a whip and fedora, as well.)