tisdag 12 januari 2010

Serendipity strikes a home run..


.. when I found these marvellous old pictures by chance - looking for something completely diffrent - on a great website called Vintage Prints that provides public domain antique scientific, naturalist, and other images for you to print or download.
I have been spending hours after hours at this site being greatful to this anonymous enthusiast who collects and saves these timecapsules for us to enjoy. Here are a few I picked for you: (Beware: most silly comments are mine!)
 
Reminds me of the small hours at one of my favourite pubs.  
( I am too smart to mention any name here.)

 Vintage makeover. Looks a bit painful. The question : "Is she really worth it?"
 
" Queen of hearts as judicial official, presiding over the trial of defendant knave-of-hearts  charged with felonious misappropriation and wrongful conversion of tarts.."
 
 Swaddled twins in Holland.  
They did not want them to turn out very crooked in those days long before free drugs and rock-n-roll....
  
 Library reading chairs. How I would love to go vintage! Want one!!

Well thinking of it, I am rapidly heading in the direction..

 
A potent King of Hearts! 
Oh, the ways of symbolic expressions of the passed!

 
A small step for Man and a great leap towards modern medicine?
 
Regal finger snaps: Jolly and obese like Santa - and keep the grub coming Joker!
Painting, childrens books.
 
In the late1940´s style.  
Sooo right! And pale. A prelude to the headscarved, eyebrow  arched Audrey-Hepburn-era.

 
Beautiful vintage botanical print; Gloxinias. From floral world and garden guide (1878)
 
"The honey dew on thy lip.." Old Valentine card.

 Now here is the link. I hope you will enjoy it as I did! Thank you Swivelchair, you anonymous biopharma worker!