WELCOME TO JAKE SMITH, A COLLECTOR EXTRAORDINARE with a wonderful website. Royal Menus - For lovers of food and lovers of history, this website seeks to share a private collection of original … [Read more...]
Footy @ Francis Doherty’s stall this Sunday
HERE ARE SOME TERRIFIC ITEMS FRANCIS DOHERTY WILL BE SELLING AT THE FAIR. - See them (and buy them) at the Grand Collectables and Ephemera FAIR at the Parkview Room, Camberwell Civic Centre, … [Read more...]
Cricket at the fair
Ken Piesse, one of our cricket experts who regularly exhibits at our fairs, has a very rare brochure on sale at our autumn fair on 22 May: the 1932 Australians to America brochure featuring the great … [Read more...]
Your nation needs you
COLLECTING HISTORY - THE FEDERAL ELECTION. Here is a call out from the National Library: The National Library collects and preserves printed election campaign materials to ensure a permanent … [Read more...]
Free for the foxtrot?
PENCIL ME IN FOR THE NEXT DANCE? We used to literally do this with a dance programme. These two programmes (small double sided cards really) are both from 1907 and from Hawthorn. The first uses an … [Read more...]