EVERY HOUSEHOLD, IN HOTLY CONTESTED ELECTORATES, WAS BOMBARDED WITH EPHEMERA, and then texts, facebook posts, radio, tv and newspaper advertising and no doubt other social media unknown to this writer … [Read more...]
Hats off to Grant Shallard, long time ESA member and stallholder
In 1995 Grant Shallard, a graphic designer, produced the “DINKUM COLLECTORS CALENDAR” featuring 12 keen Aussies and their collections, a showboat of yesteryear. It was as memorable as a dinner of … [Read more...]
Michael Aitken & The Optometry Museum
ESA member Michael Aitken was honoured with an Australian Museums and Galleries Association, Victoria Lifetime Achievement for his work with the Cyril Kett Optometry Museum and Archive (established in … [Read more...]
Through the nappy cycle
COLLECTORS OF PHONECARDS, TRAIN, TRAM AND BUS TICKETS, and other ephemera of daily life have seen types of ephemera replaced with a plastic or electronic formats. The ephemeral babies’ nappy, because … [Read more...]
Pharmacy ephemera 1975
NICE FIND, SAMPLE PAPER BAGS AND WRAPPING PAPER OFFERED TO MEMBERS OF THE PHARMACY GUILD OF AUSTRALIA IN 1975. Or is it? Frustratingly the bags reproduced above measure 26.6x9cm and 20.8x6.8cm, … [Read more...]
Will Donald
MICK STONE MENTIONED A COMIC BOOK HE WOULD LIKE TO FIND - MYSTERY ISLAND BY WILL DONALD. Curiosity led to a bit more searching about Mystery Island and Will Donald: MYSTERY ISLAND There is so … [Read more...]
Recently collected (and donated)
THE DAY AFTER A MARCH ABOUT WOMEN'S RIGHTS I FOUND MANY PLACARDS AND POSTERS DISPLAYED AROUND THE BASE OF A TREE IN THE TREASURY GARDENS, MELBOURNE. This was a march following on from … [Read more...]
Out of the box: collectables & ephemera – shown & told
ON SUNDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2021, SOME ESA MEMBERS JOINED WITH THE NAGAMBIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO TALK ABOUT EPHEMERA AND OTHER COLLECTABLES. What do historical society members collect? Well, they were … [Read more...]
Collectors and ephemera
Fresh examples of who collects and why? Our founder, an English museum curator in Australia for the Bicentennial museum activity, collected paper bags - free or cheap, easy to store, and a record … [Read more...]