ARE YOU SOMEONE WITH AN EAGLE EYE FOR DETAIL?DO YOU WANT YOUR COLLECTION TO BE ORGANISED BY, SOME PRINCIPLE?DO YOU NEED TO TAKE CERTAIN ROUTES TO AVOID AWFUL SIGNS? Three stars ***good not … [Read more...]
Record collecting 60s
SHOPPING BY POST? New? This recent donation, to the freebie table at the Ephemera Society's fairs, is a reminder that it was once exciting to shop using a printed catalogue rather than browsing in a … [Read more...]
No boisterous behaviour
TEMPTED BY RULES - OBEYING OR CHALLENGING? A further look at this small volume before it goes to its new home at the Prahran Mechanics Institute post stage 4 Covid lockdown. Neat and tidy and … [Read more...]
Ephemera Journal of Australia
Designed by Mimmo Cozzolino, the Ephemera Journal of Australia is a full colour, visual and text celebration of ephemera. Featuring articles on historic and contemporary ephemera and collecting … [Read more...]
Antiquarian sale via online catalogue
ANZAAB Joint Catalogue - listing books and other printed material for … [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...]
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...]
Dating boxes
NO, WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU TO SELECT A NEW PARTNER, rather to help us with dating some chocolate boxes and confectionery tins for a forthcoming Ephemera Journal of Australia article. Murray's were a … [Read more...]