BOOKMARKS ARE AN INTRIGUING AND HIGHLY COLLECTABLE TYPE OF EPHEMERA. PROVIDED YOU CAN SET SOME LIMITS. The next issue, #7 of the Ephemera Journal of Australia looks at a contemporary collection. The collector, ESA member Wendi Bradshaw sets the scene with a short history of the bookmark and then the story behind items in her own collection. #7 will be out in early 2021.
Others have enjoyed talking or writing about bookmarks – a favourite although not apt for Wendi’s article is:
..When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century..from Borchert, Don – Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library.
It comes from the interesting website, The International Friends of Bookmarks – and you can use it to identify collectors in countries including Australia. Browsing I came across this terrific website of a vast private collection called Le Musée du Marque-Page.
Back issue looked at older bookmarks
The Ephemera Society looked at some lovely old Australian bookmarks in our Ephemera Newsletter + What’s on #6, December 2017. It is an eight page full colour newsletter also featuring Father Christmas ephemera; some local jazz club ephemera and the celebration of Australia Day in July. If you would like a copy the cost is $6.50 including ordinary postage. There are just a few copies left. Express your interest by putting a comment in the comments’ box.
Emma-Clare Bussell says
Hi there
Yes please I would love to get ‘ The Ephemera Society looked at some lovely old Australian bookmarks in our Ephemera Newsletter + What’s on #6, December 2017. ‘
Let me know how to send the $6.50
Kind regards
Emma-Clare
mbede says
Thanks I will directly email you
David Crowe says
Hello,
As a colllector of Antique Bookmarks for almost 30 years I would like a copy of Ephemera Journal of Australia #17 of early this year.
Could you advise me of the cost + mailing, please?
Regards,
David Crowe
Sydney
Australia
mbede says
Hi David
Issue #7 is still in the pipeline – just met with the designer this morning. I would say it is 3-4 weeks away.
If you pay $18 for journal including postage by direct deposit to the Ephemera Society of Australia Inc, NAB: BSB 083 953, Account 6213 67120. Put Crowe and journal in the info section.
Send me your address and I will post out a nice earlier bookmark newsletter we did earlier. I have copied in Edwin our treasurer who will see the payment. He collects among other things bookmarks!
Cheers Mandy Bede
avid Crowe says
May I thank you, Mandy, for your contribution to the Society in the production of our Journal.
I will pay the $18 into the a/c for the journal.
I have joined the society.
My mailing address is –
David Crowe
Castle Hill NSW 2154
mbede says
You don’t need to pay the $18 then