STREET POSTERS ARE ALIVE AND WELL IN MOST SUBURBS. Generally one expects to see the garage sale advertisement followed by the plea for help for a lost animal. But there are some more unusual street … [Read more...]
Proud as a peacock of the quality – Package tour – a guide to SA ephemera
MANY WILL HAVE ENJOYED CONSULTING ESA MEMBER VIVIENNE O'NEILL'S Yesterday’s Paper – Collecting Ephemera in Australia. Vivienne O'Neill and David Tuckwell have just (Easter 2014) published Package … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
Dangers of show & tell
WHILE WE ARE ENCOURAGING THE WORLD TO THINK OF COLLECTING AS A HEALTHY WAY TO SPEND TIME, here is a cautionary tale reported in the West Australian, 4 September 1944. ACCIDENTALLY … [Read more...]
Booker prize winning character was a collector of buttons
NEW YORK BASED NOVELIST PETER CAREY (born in Bacchus Marsh, Australia) WROTE ABOUT COLLECTORS in his Booker prize in 1988 for the novel, Oscar and Lucinda (UQP, 1988). The two main … [Read more...]