Saved a box full of stamps from the tip. It weighs heavily, physically and historically, I am tempted to go through the entire thing , have tried, but get dizzy from all of the tiny little portraits and images.
Pretty sure there is a winning stamp in this lot somewhere, but to have the interest or the patience to go through three enormous albums , an additional file box and a pile of post cards, written in the twenties and thirties , addressed to Franz Macbride in Paris.
There is a stamp and coin place downtown, I may take them down there to see if they think any of these stamps are worthy.
Some are really beautiful not worth a penny probably but of interest.
This morning is cold, really cold, and the darkness has returned.
This gull has decided that I am his girlfriend.
He gets very close to me when I am out, even if I do not have peanuts in my pocket.
He leaves poos , with love...
Mrs. Plum is pushing out her attempt at bearing fruit again,
as usual, though a bit early. No more babies for Mrs. Plum - she refuses to accept.
a friend gave me this animal skin , Kulit, dragon. It is a shadow puppet from the old days in china.
The process of making the puppets is not a simple procedure. Generally speaking, it involves the selection of skin from a sheep or donkey, the removal of the hair from the skin, followed by cleaning the skin with chemicals to make it thin enough to be translucent.
Then the skin must be coated with tung oil, dried and then cut into the various parts of the puppet. The trunk, head and limbs are separately carved, then joined together by thread so that each part can be manipulated to simulate human movements.
The leather puppets are then painted to represent different characters.
During the performance, the puppets are held close to a white curtain with their shadows cast on it by a strong light from behind. Their movements guided by sticks, they play the roles in the drama accompanied by music, with the puppeteers providing the voices.---pulled from the webs info hiway.
A box full of them actually but I like the dragon best. I will likely list the other puppets of ETSY. I do not need stamps or puppets- I do need to move objects out of this space.
Old story, and seems to be continual, like the river flowing to the sea, like the tide coming in, and going out, coming in and going out. and so goes life.
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