Cathy Pryor, curator and postgraduate student in Museum and Heritage Studies at Deakin University, looks at a name change reflecting a new awareness about the old names for … [Read more...]
Mastercraft
SWEET TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? You can see an article about the confectionery in Australia in the soon to be released issue of The Ephemera Journal of Australia. OK there may be a … [Read more...]
Dating boxes
NO, WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU TO SELECT A NEW PARTNER, rather to help us with dating some chocolate boxes and confectionery tins for a forthcoming Ephemera Journal of Australia article. Murray's were a … [Read more...]
To collect or not to collect?
Love them or loathe them - Coles mini collectables are back! Irrespective of the moral and environmental arguments circulating in the press, commercial collectables such as these have a long … [Read more...]
Chocolate wrappers
CHOCOLATE EATERS AND WRAPPER COLLECTORS ALERT. We have received a request for assistance from a fellow albeit champion collector: Dear Sir or Madam, I am member of the British Ephemera Society … [Read more...]
Kelpie helpie*
HELP WANTED I'm working on an interpretive centre project here in Melbourne which tells the story of the origins of the Kelpie dog breed. One of the objects that is being loaned for display is a small … [Read more...]
Friday night treat
IN OUR FAMILY, DAD BROUGHT HOME TWISTIES FOR THE KIDS AND CHOCOLATE FOR MY MOTHER EACH FRIDAY TO MARK THE START OF THE WEEKEND. From the collection of ESA member TG, we have some terrific chocolatey … [Read more...]
Chocolate wrapping lovers unite
MEETING OF MINDS, OVER TIME AND SPACE. Local chocolate collectors - interested in a penpal? If so please make contact with Sven Stabroth: Dear Sir or Madam, I am member of the British Ephemera … [Read more...]
Poultry museum – help wanted
HELP WANTED CALL FROM DEJOHNN SIMONS: I am involved (volunteer) in a not-for-profit avicultural and poultry museum in Queensland (the only specialist type museum of this kind in the southern … [Read more...]