FROM A WONDERFUL MEMBER COLLECTION, WE LOOK AT SOME 1930s LETTERHEAD. A little bit about letterhead According to Maurice Rickards' Encyclopedia of Ephemera, letterhead evolved from the trade … [Read more...]
Where shall we stay?
AS PROMISED HERE ARE SOME MORE LOVELY ART DECO ERA TRAVEL ITEMS FROM AJAY'S COLLECTION. This time we focus on hotel ephemera. Spectacular with a small colour range. The image is 'off centre' … [Read more...]
Art deco – ephemera of that era
HOLIDAY TIME IN THE 1920s & 30s; THANKS TO ESA MEMBER AJAY FOR ACCESS TO THESE ART DECO TRAVEL BROCHURES, LABELS AND MENUS. If not to Tasmania, where might one go? When one travels, one by … [Read more...]
Bounce Down: Women’s Australian Rules Football Centenary
EXHIBITION IN PERTH: BOUNCE DOWN EXPLORES 100 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S FOOTBALL in Western Australia and beyond. Beginning in Perth in 1915 the women’s game started as a war time … [Read more...]
kids – from earnest to exhilarated
Footy
FOOTY SEASON - LOTS OF EPHEMERA AND LOTS OF COLLECTORS. We haven't really covered this well to date. But here is a range of material to get you thinking AFL. … [Read more...]
Images of Australia (maps)
WE LIKE TO COLLECT IMAGES THAT SHOW THE MAP OF AUSTRALIA. Here are some lovely examples. Final item, one of Mimmo Cozzolino's tea towel calendars. This … [Read more...]
Packaging – coughs, ice cream …
Birds
HERE IS A SELECTION FROM OUR LIBRARY OF OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. … [Read more...]