Observation Balloon on Fire, Poignant Annotated Photo of Photo, WWI Real Photo Postcard handmade wooden small shelf And someone certainly put some

And someone certainly put some love into it

I've had a couple of old climbing toys of this manner in the shop

and perhaps that is the year it was purchased rather than the year it was taken

This striking vase is a quintessential example of the mid-century work of Andersen Design Studio

Observation Balloon on Fire, Poignant Annotated Photo of Photo, WWI Real Photo Postcard handmade wooden small shelf And someone certainly put someThe striking image here I believe is specifically of a German observation balloon being attacked by British planes during WWI poetically described in the handwritten annotation on this real photo postcard as "Observation balloon on fire." It is of course the dramatic, potent image itself that drew me to this, but I also find it quite evocative metaphorically (living in a surveillance state as we do) and looking closely one can see this is actually a