Our last show & tell meeting was on Friday 17 June 2022, 6-8pm. Please consider coming along to show new or topical material. There will be talking, questions, answers, ideas and connections. … [Read more...]
Coming up in June and July 2022
Ephemera on display From Mundane to Friday: The Art of Everyday Melbourne until 22 July 2022. Where: City Gallery, Melbourne Town Hall When: 9-5, Monday to Friday until 22 July … [Read more...]
Bush dance card
WE HAVE ADMIRED 19TH AND EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY DANCE CARDS, here is a reminder that they were in use at least until 1981 at Monash Uni bush dances. Some of the format is unchanged: cover with … [Read more...]
Swap Meets – what happens?
SIMON CLEGG REPORTS ON THE LAST SWAP MEET - THE NEXT ONE IS ON FRIDAY 19 AUGUST 2022. WHERE; CAMBERWELL LIBRARY MEETING ROOMS WHEN: 6-8PM MEMBERS - FREE, FUTURE MEMBERS $5 EACH. On the … [Read more...]
Can you help with some fair jobs?
SUNDAY AFTER THE ELECTION, A BRAND NEW WORLD? MAYBE. BUT BETTER STILL THE FIRST EPHEMERA FAIR FOR MANY MOONS. Sadly the coffee stand we used to hire has gone out of business during the Covid … [Read more...]
ZOOM PHILLUMENY
You Missed ZOOMing WITH US 10 MAY 2022 6-7 PM The Ephemera Society of Australia is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Phillumeny: collecting matchboxes, matchbox … [Read more...]
Printers of Melbourne – book review
BOOK REVIEW: Printers of the Streets and Lanes of Melbourne (1837-1975) by Don Hauser (Melbourne, Nondescript Press, 2006). Printed as a limited edition run of 1,000. 171 pages with illustrations, … [Read more...]
SYMPOSIUM 2021
On 10 July 2021, the ESA managed to hold the annual symposium. Ed Jewell pulled together a range of speakers an afternoon tea and four boxes of coasters and matchboxes for the taking thanks to Bill … [Read more...]
Interpreting and transcribing historic handwriting
WHAT IS PALAEOGRAPHY AND HOW MIGHT YOU LEARN THE SKILL? Interpreting and transcribing historic handwriting. We at ESA recently had an Inquiry about an early 19th century lottery ephemera find … [Read more...]