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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.

oldbookillustrations: Vorarlberg From Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Vorarlberg

From Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations: Austria, Styria. From Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Austria, Styria.

From Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations: Title page from Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Title page from Deutsche Volkstrachten (German folk costumes), written and illustrated by Albert Kretschmer, Leipzig, 1887.

(Source: archive.org)