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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.

Introducing Tobacco To Civilization
Bob Newhart’s hilarious routine from the classic 1962 album “The Button-Down Mind on TV”

(Source: youtube.com)

f**kyeahhistorycrushes: Hillard, Nicholas - Sir Walter Raleigh “Sir Walter Raleigh (/ˈrɔːli/, /ˈræli/, or /ˈrɑːli/;[1]ca. 1554 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.” Wiki has a version of the image with better colour balance, but it’s smaller.

f**kyeahhistorycrushes:

Hillard, Nicholas - Sir Walter Raleigh

“Sir Walter Raleigh (/ˈrɔːli/, /ˈræli/, or /ˈrɑːli/;[1]ca. 1554 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England.”

Wiki has a version of the image with better colour balance, but it’s smaller.

(via telephonecigarettes)

Twilight Club cigar label

Twilight Club cigar label

(Source: mrsdentonorahippo)

hewasdeadwhenigotthere: 1892 1892 Surbrug Golden Sceptre Pipe Tobacco Man Smoking Ad

hewasdeadwhenigotthere:

1892

1892 Surbrug Golden Sceptre Pipe Tobacco Man Smoking Ad

songstersmiscellany:

leadingtone:

Thomas Weelkes
“Come sirrah Jack ho”


The King’s Singers
from Madrigal History Tour 

The social side of music making: solo and part singing go well with drinking and smoking even unto the present day (although live music making by amateurs is sadly far rarer today).

oldads: Ogden’s Midnight Flake Tobacco on Flickr.

oldads:

Ogden’s Midnight Flake Tobacco on Flickr.

(Source: vintascope, via red-phalaenopsis-deactivated201)

soyouthinkyoucansee: Soyouthinkyoucansee T. C. Williams Co Tobacco, A. Hoen & Co. Late 19th century - early 20th century.

soyouthinkyoucansee:

Soyouthinkyoucansee

T. C. Williams Co Tobacco, A. Hoen & Co. Late 19th century - early 20th century.

questionableadvice: ~ The Housewife’s Treasure. A Manual of Information on Everything That Relates to Household Economies, by Frank M. Reed, 1874(click to enlarge)

questionableadvice:

~ The Housewife’s Treasure. A Manual of Information on Everything That Relates to Household Economies, by Frank M. Reed, 1874
(click to enlarge)

questionableadvice: ~ Nerlich &. Co. General Catalogue,, Toronto, Canada; Season 1938-1939 via Library and Archives Canada(click to enlarge)

questionableadvice:

~ Nerlich &. Co. General Catalogue,, Toronto, Canada; Season 1938-1939
via Library and Archives Canada
(click to enlarge)

217lemurs: “In the Plains of Armageddon it is difficult to obtain tobacco at all…”. An advertisement in the August 1935 Blackwood’s Magazine for “Everfresh” Barneys. Among the choice phrases we are told that Barneys is “now smoked and loved wherever white men go” and that Barneys “will probably set you up in pipe-joy until the end of your smoking days.” Which, on balance, with that attitude, I’d give until 1946. I wasn’t too up on my combined knowledge of religious reference and Middle Eastern geography but it is a real place, of sorts.

217lemurs:

“In the Plains of Armageddon it is difficult to obtain tobacco at all…”. An advertisement in the August 1935 Blackwood’s Magazine for “Everfresh” Barneys. Among the choice phrases we are told that Barneys is “now smoked and loved wherever white men go” and that Barneys “will probably set you up in pipe-joy until the end of your smoking days.” Which, on balance, with that attitude, I’d give until 1946.

I wasn’t too up on my combined knowledge of religious reference and Middle Eastern geography but it is a real place, of sorts.