CAN YOU HELP SAM SHEPHERD? Two greeting cards were accidentally sold at the Maldon. Sam would love to recover the cards - sentimental value as given to her by a friend - or replace them with something … [Read more...]
Next Show & Tell – 16 June 2023
PENCIL IN FRIDAY 16 JUNE 2023, 6-8PM, AT THE CAMBERWELL LIBRARY MEETING ROOM. All welcome, friendly chat with about 10 others about 5+ of your recently collected or material on a theme or of current … [Read more...]
Weddings past
TAKE A LOOK AT A WEDDING HELD DURING A PAPER SHORTAGE, AT THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR in Grenfell, NSW in 1918. When I visited one of our regular ephemera donors (DB) to pick up a box of … [Read more...]
New year’s greetings
NEW YEAR MEANS SNOW FOR THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AND CREATED SOME BEAUTIFUL SCENES. WE LOOK BACK HERE, AND FINALLY FORWARD TO THE 2010S WITH SOME AUSTRALIAN NEW YEAR EFFORTS. Alcohol and new year … [Read more...]
1980s Australian greeting cards
THESE GREETING CARDS WERE PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED BY WILLIAM MOORE AUSTRALIA OF COPPIN STREET RICHMOND VICTORIA. The collection that has come to hand is just a selection of those published judging … [Read more...]
On the cards – for father’s day
LOOKING AT MEN ON EPHEMERA - some specifically for father's day - this Sunday. Drawn from our website archive. … [Read more...]
Greetings from the Collectables & Ephemera Fair
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2019, 9.15 AM-2PM, PARKVIEW ROOM, 340 CAMBERWELL RD, CAMBERWELL. What do you collect? Card carrying collector - these are some greeting cards bought at the last fair. Little … [Read more...]
Find programs, cards, coins, medals at the fair 22 Sept 2019
ON 22 SEPTEMBER 2019, THE NEXT COLLECTABLES & EPHEMERA FAIR BE HELD AT THE PARKVIEW ROOM, 340 CAMBERWELL RD, CAMBERWELL VIC. Simon Clegg is one of our newer stall holders and brings an … [Read more...]
More info from the outside world about north eastern Victoria artist
We ran a story about Marcus O'Donnell's paintings reproduced on greeting cards in the 1960s. From Anna: I vaguely remember visiting Marcus in his ‘humpy’ in the mountains with my father who either … [Read more...]