#from my collection

[kinkswondergirl]

Vintage Kinks wire badge

[adrasteiax]

(...) the flowers smelt so sweet as the dew fell; it was such a pleasant evening, so serene, so warm; (...)

Charlotte Bronte, from Jane Eyre

[missnarcissistsworld]

"You remember too much,"

my mother said to me recently.

"Why hold onto all that?"

And I said,

"Where can I put it down?"

She said,

"When you see these horrible images why do you stay with them? Why keep watching? Why not go away?"

I was amazed.

"Go away where?" I said.

- Anne carson, from "The Glass Eassy"

[rraaaarrl]

What John doesn’t know is that decades later, someone will draw him as a fuckboi who wandered out of an Ax body spray commercial and probably also identifies as a SoundCloud rapper, rip 🪦 😭

[theoddsideofme]

[homeandash]

Lie With Me, Phillippe Besson (tr. Molly Ringwald)

[naoa-ao3]

Kid Gambit from the 90s

[philatelyfellationist]

WW Stamp of The Day #1

For my first ever Worldwide Stamp of The Day I selected one of my first ever stamps!

This is a used Japan 1940 Kirishima National Park stamp. I actually have this whole set and maybe as I continue this series you’ll get to see the rest! You can see that this stamp has been cancelled three times from receiving postmarks along the route it travelled when it was still attached to an envelope. Japanese stamps are one of the main focuses of my collection and this was one of the stamps that started it all!

It depicts a torii gate, which in Shinto marks the transition from between the average world and sacred spaces. This stamp was printed with the photogravure method in the colour scarlet. It was issued on 8/21/1940 with a print run of 350,000. There’re no variations.

I love this stamps because it exemplifies what I love about stamp collecting! It’s both a beautiful piece of art and reflects the history and culture of the country it’s from! Stamps are an extremely accessible way to collect art while learning more about the world too.

Catalogue #’s: Stamp Number JP 310, Stanley Gibbons JP 370, Sakura JP P27

[gotankgo]

[lostinsantacarla]

[from1837to1945]

[allaboutstanwyck]

From Picturegoer magazine, from my collection

[adrasteiax]

(...) soon it'll be spring, and everything will look different then, (...)

Sarah Waters, from The Little Stranger

[rraaaarrl]

It’s what’s for dinner 🍽️

[litebritehalo]

[homeandash]

Frank O'Hara, from Meditations In an Emergency