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...]
Unprecedented #1
WHAT WILL BE THE BEST EPHEMERAL RECORDS OF COVID 19? Looking back might assist. A certificate from 1919, it reads Thelma.. volunteered and worked as a member of the Staff Specially organised by … [Read more...]
Season’s greetings
SEASONAL HUNTING AND GATHERING IN YOUR OWN HOME during the flu season, that is. ESA member David H reports on a 'find' from the back of his first aid cabinet. Season's greetings, flu season that … [Read more...]
Bottle-O!
THE EPHEMERA SOCIETY PRODUCES JOURNALS ABOUT AUSTRALIAN EPHEMERA. The back page traditionally marks the smaller things in life - tea bag tags, matchbooks, mango labels. Issue #6 will show metal … [Read more...]
kids read the paper
MORE EPHEMERA OF SCHOOL DAYS - A University of Melbourne guide to sources on Victorian education advises that: From the 1872 Education Act until 1970 - the Victorian Education primary curriculum … [Read more...]
Back to school
EVEN IN 2020 ADVERTISING ENCOURAGES PARENTS TO BUY STATIONERY FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. We look back at exercise books. From 1953, from ESA member JY, this had the indispensable back cover with a … [Read more...]
Bushfires, forests – current concerns?
ANDREW H., PRESCIENT COLLECTOR, yes once again we raid his collection for a sadly topical look back at fires in the bush and bushfire (prevention) ephemera. This next one might appeal to our … [Read more...]
Diaries
AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR, LIKE TO THINK BOTH forwards and backwards - time to buy a new diary and to look back on diaries of the past. We are drawing on the collection of ESA member Richard F. … [Read more...]