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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

stampdesigns: Hong Kong postage stamp: Dragon Boats c. 1975 designed by Tao Ho

stampdesigns:

Hong Kong postage stamp: Dragon Boats

c. 1975

designed by Tao Ho

breathingvioletfog: Picnic at Hanging Rock (dir. Peter Weir, 1975) someone said my mother’s cape that she gave me (the Austrian wool one) reminded them of the cape she wore in this scene and I do think there is some sort of uncanny semblance  fashion-and-film

breathingvioletfog:

Picnic at Hanging Rock

(dir. Peter Weir, 1975)

someone said my mother’s cape that she gave me (the Austrian wool one) reminded them of the cape she wore in this scene and I do think there is some sort of uncanny semblance 

fashion-and-film

sisterwolf: Diabolik Muziek en bloed (1975)

sisterwolf:

Diabolik

Muziek en bloed (1975)

shemagazine: “Don’t fall in love until you’ve been to Argos. Argos - for fine jewellery” Advert from ‘She’ magazine November 1975

shemagazine:

“Don’t fall in love until you’ve been to Argos. Argos - for fine jewellery”

Advert from ‘She’ magazine November 1975

bowlerhats: Elliott ErwittVersailles, France: people looking at an empty frame, 1975 

bowlerhats:

Elliott Erwitt
Versailles, France: people looking at an empty frame, 1975 

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