MANY WEEKS IN ISOLATION MEANT THAT THE DIARY HAD REALLY BECOME USELESS, NOTHING TO RECORD. NO APPOINTMENTS, NO MEETINGS, NO GET-TOGETHERS. But as we are allowed to engage with the world outside our … [Read more...]
Mum got me going
ESA MEMBER Steve F was taken out of school to attend each day of the Centenary Test with his mother. She conscientiously collected two of everything possible each day at the test. This included … [Read more...]
DGH – and the misplaced footballer
LOVED AND LOST OR SHOULD THAT BE, LOVED AND MISPLACED Long time ESA member DGH remembers his first piece of ephemera. Earliest treasured (albeit untraced) item: A signed photograph of Roy Wright, … [Read more...]
Andrew H
Andrew H TELLS US ABOUT HIS CONVERSION TO PAPER - TO EPHEMERA I started with Vida Goldstein. The collecting bug bit me quite early in life. By the age of 15, having progressed through stamps … [Read more...]
Mandy B
SERIES, I HOPE, ON 'MY FIRST PIECE OF EPHEMERA', this came up the other day in a pre-isolation discussion with ESA members. The first items we talked about didn't necessarily turn out to be a focus of … [Read more...]
Charles Troedel
This new book is the first to document the visual history of print advertising in Australia and in so doing provides a valuable illustrated social history of Australia. Charles Troedel (1835–1906) … [Read more...]
Dating the government printer
ALWAYS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DATE THE UNDATED. This brochure about influenza is undated. A close read only tells us that it is post the 'Russian influenza' pandemic of 1889-90 which arrived … [Read more...]
Nylex 2553
CAN ANYONE HELP WITH MORE INFORMATION about this Nylex toy? It is numbered 2553. According to an entry on the Museums Victoria site Nylex originally manufactured toys as Playmate Toys, Moulded … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #0
THE POST FROM ANDREW H'S COLLECTION HAS INSPIRED ED J TO DIG INTO A BOX MARKED QUARANTINE. And he found: An oath of sorts that declares you have not been in contact with any one with the Spanish … [Read more...]