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Been to the flea market yesterday for the first time after lockdown, and returned fairly disappointed. I say fairly because, after 2 hour of browsing through overpriced garbage, I dug out this absolute gem. ☺️ It’s a Viennese cookbook for the wealthy. It was written by Louise Geleskowitz, and first published in 1884. (My edition, with its beautiful art nouveau cover, was published in 1908). Despite the absolutely abysmal state of the book itself, the contents are fantastic! It contains every food or drink anyone could ask for, my personal favourites being the section about “Anglo-American cocktails”, the desserts, and the chapter listing every humanly possible way to prepare and garnish eggs (with such great sides/garnishes as Frog cutlett)

The book also features a VERY passive aggressive sounding ad for coffee additive (?) which made me laugh out loud.

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What ho, what ho! 🤵🏻

I’m considering reopening this blog by sharing my instagram posts over here. Please let me know what you guys think! 🖤

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Hello friends!

This blog has migrated to Instagram! If you want, you can go follow me there for more antiques! Tge name is, as always, #tinasantiques

I just feel more comfortable posting there to be entirely honest. Tumblr always makes such a fuss when I try to post things.

I hope to see you there, my friends! Stay classy! 🖤

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“The Animal Kingdom”, Dr. Carl Rothe, 1882, A. Pichler’s Widow and Son, Vienna, Austria.

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“Studies by Frank Miles”, W. A. Mansell & Co, 2 Percy St, London No date of publication given, however, I suspect it was printed between 1900 and 1909.

Now this is a true gem! Not only do some of the cards have ghostly imagery on the back (because the front of one card pressed against the back of the one in too of it for ages, so the image transferred.) but also did my research reveal many an interesting fact!

First off, Frank Miles was handsome as all hell! Secondly, he was Oscar Wilde’s best friend and basically his benefactor during their time at Oxford and afterwards. According to Wikipedia it was him who introduced Wilde to Roland Charles Surherland-Leveson-Gower, the very man whom he used as a model for Lord Henry Wotton in his famous novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Knowing this, I feel like Miles himself might have been the model for Basil Hallward, from the same book. It’s just an idea I had though, and it might be complete garbage.

Apparently he was also suspected to be Jack the Ripper for a short time, even though he doesn’t fit his description at all.

Frank Miles was born in 1852, and died in 1891 in Brislington House (an asylum) from pneumonia.

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Ok thanks to Article 13, I can’t share a picture of Miles, or even the drawing he did of Wilde. I’ll provide you folks with a link though.

*Frank Miles:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Miles#/media/File%3AGeorge_Francis_Miles00a.jpg

*Sketch of Wilde:

https://clarklibrary.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/exhibit-opening-oscar-wilde-and-the-visual-artists-of-the-fin-de-siecle/wilde-miles-engraving/

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“Studies by Frank Miles”, W. A. Mansell & Co, 2 Percy St, London No date of publication given, however, I suspect it was printed between 1900 and 1909. Now this is a true gem! Not only do some of the cards have ghostly imagery on the back (because the front of one card pressed against the back of the one in too of it for ages, so the image transferred.) but also did my research reveal many an interesting fact! First off, Frank Miles was handsome as all hell! Secondly, he was Oscar Wilde’s best friend and basically his benefactor during their time at Oxford and afterwards. According to Wikipedia it was him who introduced Wilde to Roland Charles Surherland-Leveson-Gower, the very man whom he used as a model for Lord Henry Wotton in his famous novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Knowing this, I feel like Miles himself might have been the model for Basil Hallward, from the same book. It’s just an idea I had though, and it might be complete garbage. Apparently he was also suspected to be Jack the Ripper for a short time, even though he doesn’t fit his description at all. Frank Miles was born in 1852, and died in 1891 in Brislington House (an asylum) from pneumonia.

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“Anecdotes of the English Language”, Samuel Pegge & Francis Grose, 1814, London, England

I really recommend reading the pages I chose to post. It is hilarious and NOT biased AT ALL. This entire books sounds like it was written by Henry Higgins…

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I’m back!

Hello everyone! I’m sorry for the long absence, but I moved house. In fact, I moved country, if you will. I couldn’t take all of my books with me, and I didn’t really know how to properly research them without a copy in my hand. I thought long and hard about what to do, and the only way I could find to keep this blog going, was to upload books without the research. Believe me, I’m very salty about this, but it can’t be helped. So many people are enjoying this blog and I don’t want to stop uploading as long as I have something to offer. I promise, I will add research as soon as I get back home and I have all my books around me. :)

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So I was urban exploring, and found a stack of newspapers from 112 years ago. I was dumbstruck! I thought I’d post this on here as well, because this blog is about antiques and it might be of interest to some of you guys :)

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“Handbook of special psychiatry” Alexaner Pilcz, 1904, Vienna- Austria

Now this is my personal favourite book of all. I got it for my 18th birthday, and I am extremely proud of it. It is a good read, extremely interesting and well explained. It deals with all the important mental illnesses and how they were treated 112 years ago. But the best things, for me, is the terminology and how well the mentality of the time period is displayed. However, I feel that Dr. Pilcz must have been a vrey progressive man, because he is concerned about all his patients alike, and he treats them as just that- patients, and their illnesses as illnesses. Of course, the words “madness” or “lunacy” appear quite frequently, but only because some of the afflictions were actually called that (eg. cyclical madness, periodic madness,...) So, all in all, I’m really fascinated by this book, because it treats a topic I’m interested in, in a period I find just as appealing. It gives the idea of a victorian insane asylum a whole new shape

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“Sherlock Holmes - a detective-comedy in four acts”, Ferdinand Bonn, date unknown, Leipzig- Germany.

This is a comedic play about the famous detective. It was first shown on July 2nd 1906 in Bonn’s own theatre in Berlin. Mr. Bonn (1861 - 1933) was one of the first german speaking actors to portray Sherlock Holmes for a movie.

My granddad found this book on a flea marked and bought it for me, because he knows how much I love the Holmes canon and the Jeremy Brett series. What he didn’t know, was that we would all be in for a good laugh. I must admit, I haven’t had the time to read it yet, but hell, the list of characters was enough to get my hysteric with laughter. Holmes’ name is the same, and his sidekick, who is usually known as Dr. Watson is called Dr. Mors in this play. It’s a small change, but not very unusual, actually, just like the rest of the characters, who all have names like O’Brien, Taylor, Forbs, Wellburn and so on. However, there are two persons all the Holmesians out there know and love, but whose names have been changed as well. 

First there is the Inspector. In Conan Doyles canon, they are called Lestrade, Hopkins, Banes and the like- but not in this play. No. The author decided to call the poor guy Inspector Smallweed. Well.

Then, there is Mrs. Hudson (that is her name in the original stories). She is Holmes’ landlady- a lovable, elderly woman who sometimes suffers under the mess her tenant makes, or the chemical experiments he conducts. Interestingly enough, Bonn thought it would be a good idea to call the good old woman Mrs. Chease.

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“Collected works of Heinrich von Kleist”

There is literally no information about when this particular edition was printed, who out it together nor anything else. All I know is it was printed in Leipzig, Germany. To my shame I have to admit, I didn’t even know Kleist, until I did my research for the book.

So here is what I know:

*1777 (Frankurt a. d. Oder) + 1811 (Berlin) He was an author and has a Theatre and a prize named after him.

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“Hygene of the human circulation, healthy and ill” Prof. Dr. Med. A. Dennig. I could find out nil about the author or the book, neither the first name of the man, nor when it was first published. All I know is my edition was printed in 1905 in Stuttgart, Germany.

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On this day in 1836, Michael Faraday constructed the first Faraday Cage - a mesh enclosure that blocks electric fields.

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“The chemical history of a candle”, Michael Faraday, 1861, London, England.

I don’t think I need to explain an awful lot about this book, since the title is in English and quite self explanatory at that.

I’m just sorry for the quality of the pictures, since they don’t do the book justice. I’m very proud of this hardback though, because of the fame of its author.

For all who don’t know who Faraday was, here’s a brief summary:

M. Faraday was a scientist who lived and worked in georgian/victorian England. He is best known for his discovery of what we know as the Faraday cage/ shield. This is basically the phenomenon that explains why we’re safe from lightning when sat in a car during a thunderstorm. He also discovered electromagnetic induction, without which our society today would be really screwed.

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My dear followers!

I'm very sorry if random things appear on this blog, that are more than out of context. It has happened to my other side blogs before and it's really annoying. It happens, when my phone switches the reblog options without my influence. I apologise to all of you, and I shall make sure it doesn't happen again. Have a nice day and a good time! yours, Tina