They found (old) gold at the ESA Collectables Ephemera Fair

THE SUN SHONE ON COLLECTORS AND STALL HOLDERS AT THE MAY COLLECTABLES & EPHEMERA FAIR.

Sunday 25 May 2014 was a typical Melbourne day, a little bit of rain, when stallholders arrived at 7.00 am to set up for the fair and sunshine as the day progressed.

Ken Piesse enjoys a sunny moment amidst his cricket and footy stall.

What could you have seen at the Fair?

Regular Ray Nichols with an extensive selection of magazines and newspapers. — Regular stall holder Ray Nichols with an extensive selection of magazines and newspapers from his stall.

Anther great find at the Fair - badges, badges, badges. — Anther great find at the Fair – badges, badges, badges.

Local stall holders

Many of the well known local stall holders were at the fair. People like Greg Plancke, games, Eve Pryor, postcards and other collectables, Francis Doherty, old AFL, and Grant Shallard, a bit of everything, had spent quality time selecting and preparing good looking stalls.

Greg Plancke's wall of games. — Greg Plancke and his wall of games. Some of Eve Pryor’s stall is in the right side foreground.

Eve Pryor with Yvonne at Eve's stall. — Eve Pryor with Yvonne at Eve’s stall.

Ian Atkinson with his customary extensive display of magazines, pamphlets and posters.

Francis Doherty and some of his rare footialia. — Francis Doherty and some of his rare footialia (yes we have just coined that term).

Grant Shallard with his well set up display of his well selected rarieties. — Grant Shallard with his well set up display.

Interstaters

We were fortunate to have a contingent from New South Wales join the fair – a reflection we hope on the interest of the Melbourne collecting public’s interest in ephemera.

The Nostalgia Factory's Amanda and David Gazzard took 6 stalls and filled them with a great array of paper and other ephemera. — The Nostalgia Factory’s Amanda and David Gazzard took 6 stalls and filled them with a great array of paper and other ephemera.

Committee member Mick Stone looks over Mark Burgess' stall. Mark is also a Sydneysider and will be at the October fair. — Committee member Mick Stone looks over Mark Burgess’ stall. Mark is also a Sydneysider and will be at the October fair.

Advice

The stallholder offer formal and informal advice about collectables and they all have their areas of expertise. Like you they can talk about collecting and collectables all day.

Two heads are better than one at Ian Stillwell's sports cards stall. — Two heads are better than one at Ian Stillwell’s sports cards stall.

There are plenty of postcards and so plenty of advice about them available at the Fair.

Expert and learner collectors

Treasures were found by many of course. Juan Sanin is an ESA member and PhD student whose interests include the ‘made in Australia’ campaign. He struck gold at the Ephemera & Collectables Fair.

ESA member Juan Sanin with, naturally, some old gold at the May 2014 fair.

The newest generation of collectors came – usually apprenticed to their father.

ESA member does the right thing – James opens the wallet while his son watches and learns.

Next time

The next Ephemera & Collectables Fair is on Sunday 19 October 2014 – so save the date. Until then, good bye from our former president and the much loved collector of ephemera, Rick Milne and his off-sider the very rare Gerry Gee puppet.

Thanks to all the ESA committee who made the fair a success: front of house David Harris and Garry James; advertising and flyer design and production Mimmo Cozzolino and Grant Shallard (and his team of flyer distributors) for signage setting up, Rhonda James. Mimmo Cozzolino took these beautiful photographs of the fun of the fair.

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They found (old) gold at the ESA Collectables Ephemera Fair