Stamping out the pandemic again
WHAT WILL BE THE BEST EPHEMERAL RECORDS OF COVID 19? Looking back might assist. A certificate from 1919, it reads Thelma.. volunteered and worked as a member of the Staff Specially organised by the...
View ArticleInfluenza
THE POST FROM ANDREW H’S COLLECTION HAS INSPIRED ED J TO DIG INTO A BOX MARKED QUARANTINE. And he found: An oath of sorts that declares you have not been in contact with any one with the Spanish flu:...
View ArticleNylex 2553
CAN ANYONE HELP WITH MORE INFORMATION about this Nylex toy? It is numbered 2553. According to an entry on the Museums Victoria site Nylex originally manufactured toys as Playmate Toys, Moulded Products...
View ArticleCharles Troedel
This new book is the first to document the visual history of print advertising in Australia and in so doing provides a valuable illustrated social history of Australia. Charles Troedel (1835–1906) was...
View ArticleMy first piece of ephemera
SERIES, I HOPE, ON ‘MY FIRST PIECE OF EPHEMERA’, this came up the other day in a pre-isolation discussion with ESA members. The first items we talked about didn’t necessarily turn out to be a focus of...
View ArticleAndrew H
Andrew H TELLS US HOW ABOUT HIS CONVERSION TO PAPER – TO EPHEMERA I started with Vida Goldstein. The collecting bug bit me quite early in life. By the age of 15, having progressed through stamps and...
View ArticleDGH – and the misplaced footballer
LOVED AND LOST OR SHOULD THAT BE, LOVED AND MISPLACED Long time ESA member DGH remembers his first piece of ephemera. Earliest treasured (albeit untraced) item: A signed photograph of Roy Wright,...
View ArticleMum got me going
ESA MEMBER Steve F was taken out of school to attend each day of the Centenary Test with his mother. She conscientiously collected two of everything possible each day at the test. This included two...
View ArticleBusy studying?
FROM 1939, THIS DIARY DOCUMENTS EACH DAY IN TINY FLOWING HANDWRITING. In early February – it is all about visiting and sewing. A closer look shows that this is a student diary for 1939; from Taylor’s...
View ArticleAntiquarian sale via online catalogue
ANZAAB Joint Catalogue – listing books and other printed material for sale Dear friends, For the first time in its 43 year history, The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian...
View ArticleWebinar How Models Work
LECTURE SERIES Why Models Work – The History Edition WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2020 6PM–7.30PM Part of the “Why Models Work” lecture series featuring curators, collection managers and conservators presenting...
View ArticleUnprecedented #2 1890s
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in Australia in...
View ArticleNo fair; not fair
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2020 EPHEMERA FAIR HAS BEEN CANCELLED with the stage 4 lockdown taking us to mid September and so it is highly likely that by 22 September, we will still be quite limited in our...
View ArticleUnprecedented #4
STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in Australia in...
View ArticleManual for railway workers
IS IT EPHEMERA? LOVELY AND RARE PUBLICATION, Instructions re working of the St. Kilda and Brighton electric street railway 1915. Published by Victorian Railways 94 numbered pages with about the same...
View ArticleMastercraft
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 further...
View ArticleNo boisterous behaviour
TEMPTED BY RULES – OBEYING OR CHALLENGING? A further look at this small volume before it goes to its new home at the Prahran Mechanics Institute post stage 4 Covid lockdown. Neat and tidy and in...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleCollecting the Curve
JOIN A SERIES OF SEMINARS ABOUT COLLECTING run by Museums Victoria As the numbers in Victoria reduce, we turn our thoughts to the next three-part lecture series, ‘Collecting the Curve‘, which starts on...
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