FRUIT ART FROM TASMANIA & QUEENSLAND, VIA ESA MEMBER NICK HENDERSON. The tiny selection we have here shows that in Tasmania, they concentrate on the fruit itself. Clements & … [Read more...]
Australian greeting cards, (recently purchased)
ARE GREETING CARDS EPHEMERA? The answer used to be a resounding 'yes'. Is that still so? In light of today's more common and much more ephemeral means of communication, emails, SMS, twitter, the … [Read more...]
Farewell Australian cricket captain Pup
HARD TO IMAGINE THAT CRICKET EPHEMERA FOR THE SOON TO RETIRE MICHAEL CLARKE WILL BE WORTH MUCH IN THE FUTURE. Are we wrong? Michael Clarke made his first class debut for New South Wales as a … [Read more...]
Remembering Hiroshima
The centenary of World War 1 has been well marked; time to look at the ephemera of other war events. The atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945. Here is … [Read more...]
Exhibition – Nail Can to Knighthood
LOCAL CHOCOLATE MAN, AND HIS ORIGINS AND OTHER SUCCESSES ARE ON DISPLAY IN MELBOURNE AT THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. (These images are not from the exhibition.) The Royal Historical … [Read more...]
In the post, 1930s
FROM A WONDERFUL MEMBER COLLECTION, WE LOOK AT SOME 1930s LETTERHEAD. A little bit about letterhead According to Maurice Rickards' Encyclopedia of Ephemera, letterhead evolved from the trade … [Read more...]
Where shall we stay?
AS PROMISED HERE ARE SOME MORE LOVELY ART DECO ERA TRAVEL ITEMS FROM AJAY'S COLLECTION. This time we focus on hotel ephemera. Spectacular with a small colour range. The image is 'off centre' … [Read more...]
Art deco – ephemera of that era
HOLIDAY TIME IN THE 1920s & 30s; THANKS TO ESA MEMBER AJAY FOR ACCESS TO THESE ART DECO TRAVEL BROCHURES, LABELS AND MENUS. If not to Tasmania, where might one go? When one travels, one by … [Read more...]
Bounce Down: Women’s Australian Rules Football Centenary
EXHIBITION IN PERTH: BOUNCE DOWN EXPLORES 100 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S FOOTBALL in Western Australia and beyond. Beginning in Perth in 1915 the women’s game started as a war time … [Read more...]