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...]
‘I’m the boy that brings the news, so a Christmas box I won’t refuse.’
STATE LIBRARY BLOG ABOUT CHRISTMAS USING EPHEMERA FROM THE WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF ED J. Blog by Kylie at State Library of Victoria. Image courtesy of Ed J. Ephemera Society of … [Read more...]
25 December
RECENTLY COLLECTED AND REDISCOVERED CHRISTMAS EPHEMERA here we go There has been a resurgence of sorts in local stationery production. "Write to me" has a range including this play on words and … [Read more...]
Penpal? Stickyfriend?
Hello! I’m Thomas 39, from Heilbronn/Neckar Germany. Since 2001 I collected Bananastickers! Now I have 2500 pieces! So I need Trading partners! Are you interested? My address: Thomas Leuze Zum … [Read more...]
I’ll drink to that – whoops, spilt it
AT OUR LAST SHOW & TELL, I BOUGHT A FEW, AND THEN PICKED UP A BOX OF NO LONGER LOCAL BEER COASTERS. Like the long gone commercial blotter, they combine the ability to soak up excess fluid with … [Read more...]
Campaigning 2019
HOW DO YOU SHAPE A STREET DEMONSTRATION IN 2019? ESA MEMBER AS BROUGHT THIS PIECE FROM 'THE CONVERSATION TO OUR ATTENTION: How to craft a protest brand. Here is the lead in to the article: Public … [Read more...]
Labels, I am attached to them
READING ABOUT COLLECTING; this little book Labels is really a short short story. Labels was publisher Hardie Grant’s first book. It was written by the UK author Louis de Bernieres. The short story … [Read more...]
To collect or not to collect?
Love them or loathe them - Coles mini collectables are back! Irrespective of the moral and environmental arguments circulating in the press, commercial collectables such as these have a long … [Read more...]
Nice cup of tea while reading the ESA journal?
LATEST EPHEMERA JOURNAL - have you got a copy? 44 pages of beautifully illustrated and researched stories about ephemera. Join the Society and get a copy. Or buy this copy only for $18 including … [Read more...]