hiatus
Crazy people are stalking me. It’s gotten a lot worse in the past couple months and what has happened in the last week or two is the last straw. I won’t post or answer questions for an undetermined amount of time.
Eventually I’ll come back. Maybe in a year.
Description to come if we haven’t already mailed the postcard.
Postcard. Bought at a bookstore in Reykjavík, Iceland. You can probably purchase a print of the photo at the Photo Museum of Iceland (whatever the name was).
“A parade coming down Bankastræti (Bank Street), downtown Reykjavík, around 1902. Brass band in front. Photograph by Sigfús Eymundsson (1837-1911). www.lesstofan.is”
Postcard. Bought at a bookstore in Reykjavík, Iceland. I’ve posted a few of Sigfús’ photos before. You can probably purchase a print of the photo at the Photo Museum of Iceland (whatever the name was).
From the Russian tv adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, 1979-1986.
While the speech is Russian, all newspapers, signs, and letters are in English. There’s a wide variety of items that are quite magnificent but I can’t get proper screencaps of them (lighting, blurriness). It’s also good to note the progression of technology over the episodes (“self-propelled carriages” showing up more often, light-bulbs appearing instead of gas lamps or candles, pens with an internal inkwell/cartridge) where in the beginning if they showed up at all it was only in the hands of the very rich or modern. Who’s to say if this series is entirely accurate, but it certainly has a lot of eye-candy, and the soundtrack is equally good.
From “Mitt Uppsala / My Uppsala”, by Natur och Kultur Stockholm (Roland Hentzel), 1965.
Bought for 300 crowns at the Nordic House library in Reykjavík, Iceland.
From “Mitt Uppsala / My Uppsala”, by Natur och Kultur Stockholm (Roland Hentzel), 1965.
Bought for 300 crowns at the Nordic House library in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Tobacco-dispensing machine. I had never seen or heard of one of these in my life, but they have modern tobacco-dispensing machines in Sweden too. Does anyone know anything about these or how widespread they were in other places?
Skansen, Sweden, 2011.
If I remember right, these are cones of fabric-covered paper. You put candy or nuts in them and hang them from the Christmas tree. These are designed to look like those from a specific time period, and the fabrics and trimmings are also vintage from around the same era as the designs.
Skansen, Sweden, December 2011
My grandparents even still own a similar set (along with a lacquered set). Or at least I think they do.
Sweden, December 2011.
Sweden. They still reprint some of these with the same art, so you can still buy some new (I own some that I bought in December). Sorry about the reflection, but I’m not the one who took the photo.
