This set features Hollywood film stars and was issued to celebrate the Gothenburg Film Festival. The kiss comes from Jenny, my wife, the giver of the pack.

This pack was issued in 1963 the year that JFK was gunned down. It captures the optimism and the aura that surrounded the Kennedy clan at the time.  The donkey is the Democrat campaign mascot and Lyndon B Johnson is on Jack's right shoulder. He was to take Kennedy's place as President hours after his assassination with Jacqueline at his side.

There was a time when Westerners, like cars, were a rare thing in Beijing.

Comic theatre

I liked the Rolleiflex so much, I bought one. My one is here. Definitely from a bygone era, you have to be selective in what you shoot as this camera only allows 12 shots per roll of film.

Japanese Kyogen theatre masks from Snowshill Manor (National Trust)

4 July 1905, Pueblo, Colorado (Library of Congress). Eunice Winkles rides bareback on her horse and dives 12 metres into a shallow pool of water. No injuries to horse nor rider apparently and she got her prize of 100 dollars.