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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.

londonwarrior: Lipstick Vamp Anna De Rijk/Vogue Netherlands

londonwarrior:

Lipstick Vamp

Anna De Rijk/Vogue Netherlands

BASTIAAN for ROBB REPORT Magazine shot by DAVID ROEMER

BASTIAAN for ROBB REPORT Magazine shot by DAVID ROEMER

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stopfrighteningmytea: devinleighbee: Concealed… A very interesting walking cane that is actually a single shot .410 gauge shotgun. The trigger is folds away so it is hidden and looks completely like a harmless cane. It’s of Belgian origin and design, somewhat old in design. I’m not sure what this would be classified as in the U.S…this example is located in the U.K. Now could this fit…..in an umbrella? Georgi Markov was shot with an umbrella by a soviet spy.

stopfrighteningmytea:

devinleighbee:

Concealed…

A very interesting walking cane that is actually a single shot .410 gauge shotgun. The trigger is folds away so it is hidden and looks completely like a harmless cane. It’s of Belgian origin and design, somewhat old in design. I’m not sure what this would be classified as in the U.S…this example is located in the U.K.

Now could this fit…..in an umbrella?

Georgi Markov was shot with an umbrella by a soviet spy.

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fookyeahconradveidt:

aikainkauna:

Because Conrad Veidt.

tag: “halp i’m in love with a guy who died 69 yrs ago”—awww, welcome to the club, honey. :)

*killed dead by the cute of 86 years ago*

Some excellent cane work there.

easytochronicle: treselegant: The Strand magazine, 1893. A door? I shall open it! BUT HOW? This has been “Narrating What People In Pictures Are Thinking.” “I say, where are those lazy servants?”

easytochronicle:

treselegant:

The Strand magazine, 1893.

A door? I shall open it! BUT HOW?

This has been “Narrating What People In Pictures Are Thinking.”

“I say, where are those lazy servants?”

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fullerart: Portrait Of the Artist As a Disagreeable Middle-Aged Man Sooner or later, every artist gets so desperate for material that he paints his own horrible self. Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt painted countless self-portraits: Vincent did so because he had no money for models; and Rembrandt did so because he had lots of funny hats, and he wanted to show them off. I have lots of funny hats, too. This Panama hat—did you know they come from Ecuador?—is probably my favorite. The werewolf cane I imported from the Carpathian Mountains, around Transylvania. I buy my clothes from the homeless, but I never cut corners on accessories. Love the Panama Hat and the cane.

fullerart:

Portrait Of the Artist As a Disagreeable Middle-Aged Man

Sooner or later, every artist gets so desperate for material that he paints his own horrible self. Vincent van Gogh and Rembrandt painted countless self-portraits: Vincent did so because he had no money for models; and Rembrandt did so because he had lots of funny hats, and he wanted to show them off.

I have lots of funny hats, too. This Panama hat—did you know they come from Ecuador?—is probably my favorite. The werewolf cane I imported from the Carpathian Mountains, around Transylvania.

I buy my clothes from the homeless, but I never cut corners on accessories.

Love the Panama Hat and the cane.

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treselegant: Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1884.

treselegant:

Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1884.

soyouthinkyoucansee: Two Gentlemen, New York (where’v you put your money) 

soyouthinkyoucansee:

Two Gentlemen, New York (where’v you put your money)

 

victorianon: Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe (Jack) ca. 1871 

victorianon:

Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe (Jack)

ca. 1871 


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clintcatalyst: English Man : Thierry Mugler [ Collection Hommes Hiver, 2010 ] “To be fair, he will not say that a black body is a system absorbing all the light it receives. Yet he wears black in an inimitable way: in a two-fabric jacket, smocked shirt and stretch cotton trousers. Cultivating the art of detail with care, he has the English genius for excess. With him, fur, eye patch, cane and hat become discreet add-ons.”

clintcatalyst:

English Man : Thierry Mugler

[ Collection Hommes Hiver, 2010 ]

“To be fair, he will not say that a black body is a system absorbing all the light it receives. Yet he wears black in an inimitable way: in a two-fabric jacket, smocked shirt and stretch cotton trousers. Cultivating the art of detail
with care, he has the English genius for excess. With him,
fur, eye patch, cane and hat become discreet add-ons.”

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