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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.

lostsplendor: Floral Postcard, France c. 1900s via Personal Collection

lostsplendor:

Floral Postcard, France c. 1900s via Personal Collection

spellbound-one: London 1908

spellbound-one:

London 1908

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onceagarden: New Idea May 1905

onceagarden:

New Idea May 1905

castaroundlesmodes: Robe d’aprés-midi par Redfern, 1903.

castaroundlesmodes:

Robe d’aprés-midi par Redfern, 1903.

castaroundlesmodes: Robe de diner par Rouff, 1903.

castaroundlesmodes:

Robe de diner par Rouff, 1903.

From The New York Times for April 24, 1901. (HT Weird Universe)

From The New York Times for April 24, 1901. (HT Weird Universe)

messytimetravel: c. 1900: Punt Guns “A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A single shot could kill over 50 waterfowl resting on the water’s surface. The hunter would maneuver the entire boat in order to aim the gun. In the United States, this practice depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most states had banned the practice. “Since Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 there has been a punt gun salute every Coronation and Jubilee in Cowbit, Lincolnshire, England” - Wikipedia … Sources: International Ammunition Association / Spalding Today

messytimetravel:

c. 1900:
Punt Guns
“A punt gun is a type of extremely large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A single shot could kill over 50 waterfowl resting on the water’s surface. The hunter would maneuver the entire boat in order to aim the gun. In the United States, this practice depleted stocks of wild waterfowl and by the 1860s most states had banned the practice.

“Since Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 there has been a punt gun salute every Coronation and Jubilee in Cowbit, Lincolnshire, England”

- Wikipedia

…

Sources: International Ammunition Association / Spalding Today

miss-etherington:

“I love you with an everlasting love…”

My beloved Duke and I don our vintage and celebrate our passion.

Photographed by Bert Le. 

a-harlots-progress: http://adski-kafeteri.livejournal.com/2416637.html Elsie Ferguson (HT Vintage Blog)

a-harlots-progress:

http://adski-kafeteri.livejournal.com/2416637.html

Elsie Ferguson (HT Vintage Blog)

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From Bartitsu Society | Jiujitsu film footage from 1912:

The second part of the newsreel features a spectacular and highly polished display of jiujitsu as gentlemanly self-defence against villainous “apaches” (French street gangsters). It is very probable that the participants in this display are S.K. Eida, Shozo Kanaya and Yuzo Hirano, all of whom also taught at the Oxford Street school. Possibly uniquely, it includes a demonstration of a jiujitsu defence against the infamous coup du père François strangulation trick.

The “apaches” evidently had a terrific time performing for the camera …