Thanks so much biancavd!
It would be so cool if they were smokes. I had read the faces etc should be white too so that was my main doubt, but I wonder if maybe they were standards set for breeding/showing purebred cats. Rather than a definition of the colouring for all cats including moggies...
Oh and the first cat is not tabby but he has what looks like brown rusting..that looks a little like its stripey like a tabby.*confused* I have no idea who mum and dad are unfortunately. The photos are overexposed. I'll get photos that show his colouring better.
Thanks for the welcome Stefanz!
I've added a couple of photos(took forever to get these, he was in attack the camera mode!)
You can see how the hair parts naturally revealing the paler colour underneath in the first photo. And the second is where I tried to part it intentionally but he moved...