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...]
Collecting tips #2
In our series on collecting tips: from Mandy Bede: Find a focus point - I like to collect in what I see as neglected areas, for example, recently published Victorian material. If the … [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...]
Collecting tips #1
Collecting tips: a series From Christine Bell: My personal mantra has been, since 1969, five of anything make a collection. I got this from an important American collector famous for her Chinese … [Read more...]
How to catalogue your collection
The significance of ephemera collections often comes from their social history and cultural context. To best capture this often means they require careful thought in the the initial cataloguing … [Read more...]
Why catalogue your collection?
Why catalogue your collection? It’s rewarding, cheap, simple, and everyone can do it – yet not many collectors take this step. Philip Moorhouse is proprietor of The Collecting Bug, a website where … [Read more...]
Dangers of show & tell
WHILE WE ARE ENCOURAGING THE WORLD TO THINK OF COLLECTING AS A HEALTHY WAY TO SPEND TIME, here is a cautionary tale reported in the West Australian, 4 September 1944. ACCIDENTALLY … [Read more...]