Dublin - Male Calico/tortie?

This is Dublin. I adopted him from a rescue. He is mostly black with some pepper "stripes" all over and weird random patches of pepper and gray on his chin/mouth and above his eyes. (makes him look like he has eyebrows). His whiskers are also a mix of white and black. He has a brown/orange mark on his nose, which made me wonder if that's an extra X chromosome showing like in a Calico. He is a male, so that would be odd. That is the only orange marking he has. Would he be considered a Tortoiseshell Tabby?

WOW! I have no idea how to answer your question, but l had to drop in and say how beautiful and how unusual he is! He looks like he wanted to be a tabby but ended up almost black.

He's just an amazing colour.

Wow ! This is difficult one ! Gorgeous boy by the way !

You are right about him being a male torbie ( tortoiseshell tabby ) due to an extra chromosome. Quite rare indeed

You ay well have an XXY cat there.  They do exist.  In my experience, they are some of the sweetest cats around -- the don't have the "tortietude" like the females do.

What a beautiful and unusual cat you have.  I look forward to hearing and seeing more of this little one and he grows up. 

Thank you guys! 

Thank you for posting more pictures of Dublin, he is quite spectacular!  Almost like a shadow cat - the way his stripes come and go like there's sun shining through a venetian blind casting shadows on his fur while he soaks up the heat.  Very pretty, and his profile is lovely too.  If he is a good natured people cat and not shy as you describe, you could think about entering him in the pet classes in shows.  I've only been to 4 shows but it's enough to see non-pedigree pets winning best in show, in fact they won it in 2 of them so 50% is a good marker!    

I have no idea as I'm not so good with the patterns and such. But WOW he is beautiful!

Gorgeous!