Friday, September 19, 2014

English and Scotch Soldiers

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English and Scotch Soldiers/Soldats Anglais et Escosais.
Private Men of the 95th Rifles, 71st Highlanders, and a corporal of the 42nd Highlanders, c. 1815. Artist Unknown.

via the Ear-Trumpet

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Bottled History


Bottled History from Smith Journal on Vimeo.

A short film about pipe-smoking ship-in-a-bottle artist Ray Gascoigne.

Shot pipe

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From The Hole Book (Peter Newell, 1908) at The Public Domain Review.