Observation Balloon on Fire, Poignant Annotated Photo of Photo, WWI Real Photo Postcard handmade wooden small shelf but find them quite beautiful

but find them quite beautiful

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

And someone certainly put some love into it

A little searching tells me he was made by Grey Iron Casting Co

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

Observation Balloon on Fire, Poignant Annotated Photo of Photo, WWI Real Photo Postcard handmade wooden small shelf but find them quite beautifulThe 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