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.
Lashing on new ratlines in the rigging aboard the Frances and Marion, a Portuguese trawler.
Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942
John Collier Jr.
Pipe Shoots Through Its Stem…from Popular Science, February 1933
Sid James.
Meet me by the hangar. on Flickr.
Awesome. :3 Although my first thought was “Oooh, Sherlock!” XD
And mine was “It’s Captain Haddock!” :D
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ca. 1855-95, [carte de visite portrait of a young gentleman in a top hat smoking an elaborate pipe], T.A. Brown
via the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Carl Mautz Collection
Cigar holder rather than a pipe, I believe.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m924jeFsS11qa51rdo1_500.jpg)
