Obscurities. Rarities. Curiosities.
Dead things. Old things. Magical things.
Random things that caught my attention.
This is a view into the ebbs and flows of my personal collections.
Probably the occasional items for sale.
I took a short break from social media for my mental health, but I'm looking at $4k worth of medical bills so I'm going to start dipping into my collection and posting items for sale to help with that. Just in time for early Holiday shopping if you have friends or family with good taste 😀
Starting off with a loose collection of 13 foot bones and a loose collection of 10 vertebrae.
Neither set appears to be from a single respective specimen.
I generally don't collect militaria, but this little trench art piece was too nice to pass up. Carved bone skull memento mori pendant or fob (maybe?) engraved with Royal Tank Corps abbreviation, founding year, and motto. The bottom of the piece is a lucky sixpence. Made sometime after 1923 based on the motto.
1905 edition of Alfred Binet's "On Double Consciousness". A short book presenting experimental psychological studies investigating unconscious phenomena in relation to double consciousness.
In this case "double consciousness" refers to multiple, distinct consciousnesses in a single individual rather than referring to concepts of dual self-perception in regards to the experiences of oppressed peoples in oppressive societies.
"Anatomically speaking, it resembled the unhappy melding of an anteater (the face), a mule (the ears), and a tortoise (the carapace). I thought it overall an unlucky creature in the looks department, but Granddaddy once said that to apply a human definition of beauty to an animal that had managed to thrive for millions of years was both unscientific and foolish."
― Jacqueline Kelly, The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate
“Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic